Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in Red Hat Linux 5 DHCP Configuration Script

CVE-1999-1407 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

ifdhcpc-done script for configuring DHCP on Red Hat Linux 5 allows local users to append text to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the dhcplog file.

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