Bug 1617044 (CVE-2003-0501) - CVE-2003-0501 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2003-0501 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2003-0501
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 02:35 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 02:35:15 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 02:35:09 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 17:39:53 UTC 
MITRE description:

The /proc filesystem in Linux allows local users to obtain sensitive information by opening various entries in /proc/self before executing a setuid program, which causes the program to fail to change the ownership and permissions of those entries.
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