CVE-2002-0169 Information

Description

The default stylesheet for DocBook on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.2 is installed with an insecure option enabled which could allow users to overwrite files outside of the current directory from an untrusted document by using a full pathname as an element identifier.

Reference

http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4095 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8983.php http://www.osvdb.org/5349 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-062.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4654