CVEvulnerability
CVE-2000-0722
6.2 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2000-10-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Helix GNOME Updater helix-update 0.5 and earlier allows local users to install arbitrary RPM packages by creating the /tmp/helix-install installation directory before root has begun installing packages.
Affected configurations
• helix code gnome updater 0.1
• helix code gnome updater 0.2
• helix code gnome updater 0.3
• helix code gnome updater 0.4
• helix code gnome updater 0.5
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0240.html Vendor Advisory
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0251.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1593 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=E13QAYl-0007il-00%40the-village.bc.nu www.securityfocus.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0240.html Vendor Advisory
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0251.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1593 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=E13QAYl-0007il-00%40the-village.bc.nu www.securityfocus.com