CVE-2004-0976 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple Perl scripts in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1 and other operating systems. Attackers can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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