CVE-2004-0976

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2004-09-30
Bugzilla:
1617339: CVE-2004-0976 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple scripts in the perl package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1 and other operating systems allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Find out more about CVE-2004-0976 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140058

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (perl) RHSA-2005:881 2005-12-20

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