Symlink Attack Vulnerability in Apmd in Red Hat 7.2 Enigma

CVE-2001-0946 · LOW Severity

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

apmscript in Apmd in Red Hat 7.2 "Enigma" allows local users to create or change the modification dates of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the LOW_POWER temporary file, which could be used to cause a denial of service, e.g. by creating /etc/nologin and disabling logins.

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