Vulnerability CVE-2000-0864
Published: 2000-11-14   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Race condition in the creation of a Unix domain socket in GNOME esound 0.2.19 and earlier allows a local user to change the permissions of arbitrary files and directories, and gain additional privileges, via a symlink attack.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.2/10
10/10
1.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Gnome -> Esound 

 References:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0095.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0118.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-08/0365.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2000/20001008
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/esound_daemon_race_condition.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-077.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1659
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5213
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