CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0435

1.2 LOW Published 2002-07-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-07-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.2 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Race condition in the recursive (1) directory deletion and (2) directory move in GNU File Utilities (fileutils) 4.1 and earlier allows local users to delete directories as the user running fileutils by moving a low-level directory to a higher level as it is being deleted, which causes fileutils to chdir to a ".." directory that is higher than expected, possibly up to the root file system.

Affected configurations

• gnu fileutils 4.0 • gnu fileutils 4.1 • gnu fileutils 4.1.6

References