CVE-2001-1256

kmmodreg in HP-UX 11.11, 11.04 and 11.00 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files via a symlink attack on the 1 /tmp/.kmmodreglock and 2 /tmp/kmpath.tmp temporary files...

CVE-2001-1256

CVE-2001-1256 concerns HP-UX 11.11, 11.04 and 11.00 where the kmmodreg program creates two temporary files in /tmp (namely /tmp/.kmmodreg_lock and /tmp/kmpath.tmp) with insecure handling. A local attacker can exploit a symlink race to overwrite arbitrary world-writeable files because the files ar...