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FKIE_CVE-2004-0217

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2004-04-15 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:05

Severity

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

Summary

The LiveUpdate capability (liveupdate.sh) in Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 4.0 and 4.3 for Red Hat Linux allows local users to create or append to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/LiveUpdate.log.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107694800908164&w=2	Exploit, Mailing List
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9662	Broken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15215	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107694800908164&w=2	Exploit, Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9662	Broken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15215	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
symantec	antivirus_scan_engine	4.0
symantec	antivirus_scan_engine	4.3
redhat	linux	-

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CVE-2004-0217 (GCVE-0-2004-0217)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-03-16 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:10

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9662	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107694800908164&w=2	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Date Public

2004-02-16 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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