CVE-2003-1294

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2003-11-28
Bugzilla:
1617125: CVE-2003-1294 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Xscreensaver before 4.15 creates temporary files insecurely in (1) driver/passwd-kerberos.c, (2) driver/xscreensaver-getimage-video, (3) driver/xscreensaver.kss.in, and the (4) vidwhacker and (5) webcollage screensavers, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Find out more about CVE-2003-1294 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (xscreensaver) RHSA-2006:0498 2006-05-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (xscreensaver) RHSA-2006:0498 2006-05-23

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