Symlink Attack Affecting freebsd package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383074
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Mar 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Mar 2011

CVE-2011-1073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack crontab.c in crontab in FreeBSD and Apple Mac OS X allows local users to (1) determine the existence of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/crontab.XXXXXXXXXX temporary file and (2) perform MD5 checksum comparisons on arbitrary pairs of files via two symlink attacks on /tmp/crontab.XXXXXXXXXX temporary files.

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