CVE-2003-0885

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2003-0885 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of Xscreensaver as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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