Description
Vulnerability in (1) pine before 4.33 and (2) the pico editor, included with pine, allows local users local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- IMMUNIX
- Published
- 10/18/2001
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
immunix : immuniximmunix : immuniximmunix : immunixuniversity_of_washington : pineengardelinux : secure_linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linuxmandrakesoft : mandrake_linux_corporate_serverredhat : linuxredhat : linuxredhat : linux
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