National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-0497
Original release date:08/12/2002
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in mtr 0.46 and earlier, when installed setuid root, allows local users to access a raw socket via a long MTR_OPTIONS environment variable.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: BID
Name: 4217
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: mtr-options-bo(8367)
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-124
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20020306 mtr 0.45, 0.46