CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0885

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2003-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the (1) apple2, (2) xanalogtv, and (3) pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected configurations

• xscreensaver xscreensaver 4.14

References