Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in vi (SCO OpenServer 5.0 - 5.0.6)

Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in vi (SCO OpenServer 5.0 - 5.0.6)

CVE-2001-0627 · LOW Severity

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

vi as included with SCO OpenServer 5.0 - 5.0.6 allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

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