CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2004-1000

Published: Jan 10, 2004 | Modified: Jul 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

lintian 1.23 and earlier removes the working directory even if it was not created by lintian, which may allow local users to delete arbitrary files or directories via a symlink attack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Lintian Debian 1.2_0.17.1 (including) 1.2_0.17.1 (including)
Lintian Ubuntu dapper *
Lintian Ubuntu devel *
Lintian Ubuntu edgy *
Lintian Ubuntu feisty *

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