Bug 157663 - CVE-2004-1808 metamail symlink attack
Summary: CVE-2004-1808 metamail symlink attack
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: metamail
Version: 2.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-05-13 15:29 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2009-06-01 08:58 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-06-01 08:58:49 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-05-13 15:29:11 UTC 
Extcompose in metamail does not verify the output file before writing to it,
which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-03/0118.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308875
Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2009-06-01 08:58:49 UTC 
Low severity, won't fix, EOL
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