CVE-2016-6253

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 20, 2017
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jul 20, 2016

Description

mail.local in NetBSD versions 6.0 through 6.0.6, 6.1 through 6.1.5, and 7.0 allows local users to change ownership of or append data to arbitrary files on the target system via a symlink attack on the user mailbox.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

NetBSD-SA2016-006vendor-advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138021/NetBSD-mail.local-8-Local-Root.html
40141exploit
40385exploit
92101vdb-entry
http://akat1.pl/?id=2
1036429vdb-entry
http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/unix/local/netbsd_mail_local

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