CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2003-0885

Published: Dec 31, 2003 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xscreensaver Xscreensaver 4.14 (including) 4.14 (including)

References