CVE-2004-1000

CVE-2004-1000 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in lintian versions 1.23 and earlier, affecting Debian systems. A local attacker could exploit this by using a symlink attack to trick lintian into deleting arbitrary files or directories, even those not created by the tool. The vulnerability has a low severity score (CVSS 2.1) due to its local attack vector and limited impact (partial availability). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old flaw.