Vulnerability CVE-2004-0996
Published: 2005-01-10   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
main.c in cscope 15-4 and 15-5 creates temporary files with predictable filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

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
SCO -> Unixware 
Gentoo -> Linux 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Cscope -> Cscope 

 References:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110133485519690&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-610
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-11.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/381443
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/381506
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/381611
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11697
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/18125
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