National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0967
Original release date:02/09/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The (1) pj-gs.sh, (2) ps2epsi, (3) pv.sh, and (4) sysvlp.sh scripts in the ESP Ghostscript (espgs) package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and other operating systems, allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/07/2007)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140074
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.
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External Source: BID
Name: 11285
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: script-temporary-file-overwrite(17583)
Type: Advisory
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2004-0050
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:081
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20056
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19799
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17135
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16997
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-3-1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136321
External Source: SCO
Name: SCOSA-2006.23
External Source: SCO
Name: SCOSA-2006.19