Vulnerability CVE-2003-0885


Published: 2003-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Xscreensaver -> Xscreensaver 

 References:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41253
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182286

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