CVE-2001-0946 Information

Description

apmscript in Apmd in Red Hat 7.2 \Enigma\ allows local users to create or change the modification dates of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the LOW_POWER temporary file which could be used to cause a denial of service e.g. by creating /etc/nologin and disabling logins.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100743394701962&w=2 http://www.osvdb.org/5493 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56389 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8268