CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0635

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-08-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-08-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Red Hat Linux 7.1 sets insecure permissions on swap files created during installation, which can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges by reading sensitive information from the swap file, such as passwords.

Affected configurations

• redhat linux 7.1

References