CVE-2003-0885

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182286
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41253

References

• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182286
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41253

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