CVE-2004-0966 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the GNU gettext package version 1.14 and later, including its use in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1 and other operating systems. The autopoint and gettextize scripts are susceptible to a symlink attack on temporary files, allowing local users to overwrite arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and resulting in potential data integrity impact (file overwrite) but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat profile.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.14.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gettext:0.14.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu_linux:4.1:*:ia64:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu_linux:4.1:*:ppc:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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