CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0211

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2002-05-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2002-05-16
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

Race condition in the installation script for Tarantella Enterprise 3 3.01 through 3.20 creates a world-writeable temporary "gunzip" program before executing it, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the program before it is executed.

Affected configurations

• tarantella tarantella enterprise 3.3.0 • tarantella tarantella enterprise 3.3.0.1 • tarantella tarantella enterprise 3.3.10 • tarantella tarantella enterprise 3.3.11 • tarantella tarantella enterprise 3.3.20

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101208650722179&w=2 marc.info
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/265845 Exploit
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7996.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3966 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.tarantella.com/security/bulletin-04.html Patch, Vendor Advisory, URL Repurposed
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101208650722179&w=2 marc.info
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/265845 Exploit
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7996.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3966 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.tarantella.com/security/bulletin-04.html Patch, Vendor Advisory, URL Repurposed