Bug 1617182 (CVE-2004-0233) - CVE-2004-0233 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2004-0233 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2004-0233
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 02:58 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 02:58:33 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 02:58:28 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 17:48:58 UTC 
MITRE description:

Utempter allows device names that contain .. (dot dot) directory traversal sequences, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on device names in combination with an application that trusts the utmp or wtmp files.
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