CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-0178

Published: May 29, 2002 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

uudecode, as available in the sharutils package before 4.2.1, does not check whether the filename of the uudecoded file is a pipe or symbolic link, which could allow attackers to overwrite files or execute commands.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Sharutils Gnu 4.2 (including) 4.2 (including)

References