CVE-2002-0435

N/A

Description

Race condition in the recursive (1) directory deletion and (2) directory move in GNU File Utilities (fileutils) 4.1 and earlier allows local users to delete directories as the user running fileutils by moving a low-level directory to a higher level as it is being deleted, which causes fileutils to chdir to a ".." directory that is higher than expected, possibly up to the root file system.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published7/26/2002

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:fileutils

References

ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-018.1.txt(cve@mitre.org)

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-fileutils/2002-03/msg00028.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8432.php(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-031.php(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-015.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-016.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/260936(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4266(cve@mitre.org)

ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-018.1.txt(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-fileutils/2002-03/msg00028.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8432.php(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-031.php(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-015.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-016.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/260936(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4266(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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