CVE-2004-0996

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.1%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDDec 1

1st PoCNov 17

exploitation probability

1.1%top 36% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

main.c in cscope 15-4 and 15-5 creates temporary files with predictable filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/24749 exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/24750

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110133485519690&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/26235 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18125 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-610 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-11.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/381443 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/381506 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/381611 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11697 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159