CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0178

7.2 HIGH Published 2002-05-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-05-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

uudecode, as available in the sharutils package before 4.2.1, does not check whether the filename of the uudecoded file is a pipe or symbolic link, which could allow attackers to overwrite files or execute commands.

Affected configurations

• gnu sharutils 4.2

References