CVE-2004-0395 (GCVE-0-2004-0395)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-07-08 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:17
VLAI
Summary
The xatitv program in the gatos package does not properly drop root privileges when the configuration file does not exist, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a system call.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-509 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10437 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2004-05-29 00:00
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