CVE-2001-0117 describes a local file overwrite vulnerability in sdiff 2.7, part of the diffutils package, affecting products like Immunix, Mandrakesoft, Red Hat, and Trustix. This low-severity vulnerability (CVSS 1.2) allows a local attacker with high attack complexity to potentially modify files through a symlink attack, resulting in partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this older CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0_betaCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:immunix:immunix:7.0_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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