PT-2004-2793 · Suse · Yast Online Update+1

Published 2004-12-31 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-1895

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SuSE versions 8.2 and 9.0

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the you-$USER/cookies directory.

Recommendations For SuSE version 8.2, update the YaST Online Update (YOU) package to prevent symlink attacks. For SuSE version 9.0, update the YaST Online Update (YOU) package to prevent symlink attacks.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-1895

Affected Products

Suse

Yast Online Update

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-1895 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108118395519164&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15731 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/11300 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/4985 · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-04/0058.html · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1009668 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/10047 · Note