low
2.1
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-2003-1294

First published: Wed Dec 31 2003(Updated: )

Xscreensaver before 4.15 creates temporary files insecurely in (1) driver/passwd-kerberos.c, (2) driver/xscreensaver-getimage-video, (3) driver/xscreensaver.kss.in, and the (4) vidwhacker and (5) webcollage screensavers, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
XScreenSaver=4.14_5
XScreenSaver=4.14_4
XScreenSaver=4.05_6
XScreenSaver=4.10_15
XScreenSaver=4.07_2
XScreenSaver=4.08_29135cl
XScreenSaver=4.11_0
XScreenSaver=4.14_0
XScreenSaver=4.05_150
XScreenSaver=4.05_6a
XScreenSaver=4.12_58
XScreenSaver=4.10_4
XScreenSaver=4.14_2
XScreenSaver=4.05_5cl
XScreenSaver=4.10_6
XScreenSaver=4.10_8
XScreenSaver=4.09_0
XScreenSaver=4.12_62

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