CVE-2009-1215
Published Apr 1, 2009
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Race condition in GNU screen 4.0.3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/screen-exchange temporary file.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 1.9
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-362
Vendor comments
- Red HatRed Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. The checks implemented by screen to protect against race condition attacks on /tmp/screen-exchange file provide sufficient protection for this rarely-used buffer exchange feature. For more details, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492104
Configurations
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{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
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"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnu_screen:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "49FAB4AC-93A3-4733-8DE3-0CD96D25D8FB"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]