Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-0537 - Unspecified vulnerability in Daiki Ueno Liece Emacs IRC Client

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
daiki-ueno
nessus

Summary

The liece Emacs IRC client 2.0+0.20030527 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files as other users.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Daiki_Ueno
1

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-341.NASL
descriptionliece, an IRC client for Emacs, does not take appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files. This bug could potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Emacs and liece, potentially with contents supplied by the attacker.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id15178
published2004-09-29
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/15178
titleDebian DSA-341-1 : liece - insecure temporary file