CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0233

2.1 LOW Published 2004-08-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-08-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

Utempter allows device names that contain .. (dot dot) directory traversal sequences, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on device names in combination with an application that trusts the utmp or wtmp files.

Affected configurations

• sgi propack 2.4 • sgi propack 3.0 • utempter utempter 0.5.2 • utempter utempter 0.5.3 • slackware slackware linux • slackware slackware linux 9.1

References