CVE-2003-0885

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 28, 2006
Updated: Aug 8, 2024
Reserved: Oct 24, 2003

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

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

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