Vulnerability CVE-2004-2502
Published: 2004-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
im-switch before 11.4-46.1 in Fedora Core 2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imswitcher[PID] temporary file.

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
Im-switch -> Im-switch 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16682
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10717
http://secunia.com/advisories/12037
http://www.osvdb.org/7772
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0407-advisories/fedora_im-switch_tempfile_race.txt
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126940
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