First published: Tue Dec 04 2001(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Redhat Linux | =7.2 |
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