CVE-2004-0975 Information

Description

The der_chop script in the openssl package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1 and other operating systems allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Reference

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136302 http://secunia.com/advisories/12973 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-603 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-15.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-476.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11293 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17583 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10621 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A164