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FKIE_CVE-2001-1494

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2001-12-31 05:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 21:56

Severity

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Summary

script command in the util-linux package before 2.11n allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by setting a hardlink from the typescript log file to any file on the system, then having root execute the script command.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0122.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0123.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/16785	Broken Link
cve@mitre.org	http://secunia.com/advisories/18502	Broken Link
cve@mitre.org	http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-014.htm	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-782.html	Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16280	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7718	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10723	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0122.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://secunia.com/advisories/18502	Broken Link
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10723	Broken Link

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
kernel	util-linux	*
avaya	cvlan	*
avaya	integrated_management_suit	*
avaya	interactive_response	*
avaya	intuity_lx	*
avaya	message_networking	*
avaya	messaging_storage_server	*

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CVE-2001-1494 (GCVE-0-2001-1494)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-06-21 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:58

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

9 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16280	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-782.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0123.html	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def…	vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0122.html	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/16785	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2…	x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/18502	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Date Public

2001-12-12 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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