CVE-2004-0976

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0976
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-02-09 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMultiple scripts in the perl package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1 and other operating systems allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.6 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.6.1 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.0 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.1 All All All
Application Larry Wall Perl 5.8.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 fedoranews.org
Secunia - Advisories - Fedora update for perl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Perl Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.org
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update perl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
'[OpenPKG-SA-2005.001] OpenPKG Security Advisory (perl)' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-620-1 perl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140058 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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