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CVE-2001-0946

N/A

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/4/2001

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

redhat:linux

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100743394701962&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.osvdb.org/5493(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56389(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8268(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100743394701962&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.osvdb.org/5493(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56389(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8268(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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