CVE-2004-0972 Information

Description

The lvmcreate_initrd script in the lvm package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1 and possibly 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=136308 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-232.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11290 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17583 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10632