Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-0885 - Remote Security vulnerability in Xscreensaver 4.14

047910
CVSS 6.4 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
xscreensaver

Summary

Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the (1) apple2, (2) xanalogtv, and (3) pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Xscreensaver
1

Statements

contributorMark J Cox
lastmodified2006-08-30
organizationRed Hat
statementThis issue did not affect the versions of Xscreensaver as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.