Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-0610 - Local Security vulnerability in Linux

047910
CVSS 4.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
kde
suse
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2001-08-02
Updated: 2017-12-19

Summary

kfm as included with KDE 1.x can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a symlink attack in the kfm cache directory in /tmp.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Kde
1
OS
Suse
4

Exploit-Db

descriptionSUSE 7.0 KFM Insecure TMP File Creation Vulnerability. CVE-2001-0610. Local exploit for linux platform
idEDB-ID:20781
last seen2016-02-02
modified2001-04-18
published2001-04-18
reporterPaul Starzetz
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/20781/
titleSUSE 7.0 KFM Insecure TMP File Creation Vulnerability

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