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A vulnerability was found in Helix Code Go-Gnome Pre-Installer 1.5. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file /tmp. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a symlink vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-61. The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently account for when the file is a symbolic link that resolves to a target outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
The go-gnome Helix GNOME pre-installer allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on various files in /tmp, including uudecode, snarf, and some installer files.
The weakness was released 10/20/2000 by FIRST (Website). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2000-0724. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.
Upgrading to version 1.5 .2 eliminates this vulnerability.
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CPE 2.3
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.1
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Exploiting
Class: SymlinkCWE: CWE-61 / CWE-59
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Go-Gnome Pre-Installer 1.5 .2
Timeline
08/29/2000 🔍10/20/2000 🔍
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06/27/2014 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: archives.neohapsis.comResearcher: FIRST
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2000-0724 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 1622 - Helix Code "go-gnome" /tmp Symlink Vulnerability
Entry
Created: 06/27/2014 15:05Updated: 04/06/2019 00:52
Changes: 06/27/2014 15:05 (52), 04/06/2019 00:52 (1)
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