CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0946

3.6 LOW Published 2001-12-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-12-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

apmscript in Apmd in Red Hat 7.2 "Enigma" allows local users to create or change the modification dates of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the LOW_POWER temporary file, which could be used to cause a denial of service, e.g. by creating /etc/nologin and disabling logins.

Affected configurations

• redhat linux 7.2

References