CVE-2004-0064 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the SuSEconfig.gnome-filesystem script within YaST on SuSE Linux 9.0. An attacker can exploit this by creating symbolic links within the temporary directory tmp.SuSEconfig.gnome-filesystem.$RANDOM, leading to the overwriting of arbitrary files. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating low attack complexity and local access requirements, with a potential impact limited to file integrity. While not actively exploited in the wild, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness among researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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