Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > August 18 to 24, 2003

Overview

3 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 1 critical vulnerabilities and 1 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 3 products from 3 vendors including IBM, Linux NFS, and Mgetty Project. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Link Following", and "Off-by-one Error".

  • 1 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 1 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • IBM has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.
  • Linux NFS has the most reported critical vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

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CRITICAL RISK
VULNERABILITIES
HIGH RISK
VULNERABILITIES
MEDIUM RISK
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LOW RISK
VULNERABILITIES
REMOTELY
EXPLOITABLE
LOCALLY
EXPLOITABLE
EXPLOIT
AVAILABLE
EXPLOITABLE
ANONYMOUSLY
AFFECTING
WEB APPLICATION

Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

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1 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2003-08-18 CVE-2003-0252 Linux NFS Off-by-one Error vulnerability in Linux-Nfs Nfs-Utils

Off-by-one error in the xlog function of mountd in the Linux NFS utils package (nfs-utils) before 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain RPC requests to mountd that do not contain newlines.
9.8

1 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2003-08-18 CVE-2003-0578 IBM Link Following vulnerability in IBM U2 Universe 10.0.0.9

cci_dir in IBM U2 UniVerse 10.0.0.9 and earlier creates hard links and unlinks files as root, which allows local users to gain privileges by deleting and overwriting arbitrary files.
7.8

1 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2003-08-18 CVE-2003-0517 Mgetty Project Link Following vulnerability in Mgetty Project Mgetty 1.1.28

faxrunqd.in in mgetty 1.1.28 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on JOB files.
5.5

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS