Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-1808 - Unspecified vulnerability in Metamail Corporation Metamail 2.7
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE 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. |