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CVE-2004-2698
Published: Oct 6, 2007
Modified: Aug 8, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
Race condition in IMWheel 1.0.0pre11 and earlier, when running with the -k option, allows local users to cause a denial of service (IMWheel crash) and possibly modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imwheel.pid file.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
imwheel-race-condition(17082)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
1011049
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
12349
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
11008
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2004-0002.txt
x_refsource_MISC
http://imwheel.sourceforge.net/files/DEVELOPMENT.txt
x_refsource_CONFIRM
20040820 CAU-2004-0002 - imwheel Predictable PidFile Name Race Condition
mailing-list
x_refsource_FULLDISC
9111
vdb-entry
x_refsource_OSVDB
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