CVE-2004-0233: Undefined Security Weakness

Utempter allows device names that contain .. dot dot directory traversal sequences, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on device names in combination with an application that trusts the utmp or wtmp files...

MDKSA-2004:031 - Updated utempter packages fix several vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory Package name: utempter Advisory ID: MDKSA-2004:031 Date: April 19th, 2004 Affected versions: 10.0, 9.1, 9.2, Corporate Server 2.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2 Problem Description: Steve Grubb discovered two...

utempter security update

New utempter packages are available for Slackware 9.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Slackware 9.1 was the first version of Slackware to use the libutempter library, and earlier versions of Slackware are not affected by this issue The utempter package provides a utility and shared library...