CVE-2001-0109 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the rctab utility within SuSE Linux versions 7.0 and earlier. An attacker can exploit a symlink race condition on the rctmp temporary file to create or overwrite arbitrary files on the system. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 1.2, indicating a low impact (partial integrity loss) and high attack complexity, requiring local access. While no active exploitation is reported, exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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