Bug 1616708 (CVE-2001-1494) - CVE-2001-1494 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2001-1494 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2001-1494
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 01:37 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 01:37:22 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 01:37:16 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:00:46 UTC 
MITRE description:

script command in the util-linux package before 2.11n allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by setting a hardlink from the typescript log file to any file on the system, then having root execute the script command.
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