Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-1808 - Unspecified vulnerability in Metamail Corporation Metamail 2.7
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Extcompose in metamail does not verify the output file before writing to it, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2009-06-01 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | The Red Hat Security Response Team rated this issue as having low security impact. This issue affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 but due to the low severity will not be fixed. metamail was not shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5. |