Vulnerability CVE-2004-0966
Published: 2005-02-09   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The (1) autopoint and (2) gettextize scripts in the GNU gettext package 1.14 and later versions, as used 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.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Ubuntu -> Ubuntu linux 
GNU -> Gettext 

 References:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136323
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110382652226638&w=2
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-10.xml
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2006-January/msg00000.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11282
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:051
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17583
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-5-1/
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