CVE-2002-0174

IRIX nsd symlink vulnerability (CVE-2002-0174): on SGI IRIX versions prior to 6.5.11, nsd can be tricked via a symlink attack on /var/tmp/nsd.dump to damage/modify the dump file when the nsd process receives USR1. Local users could potentially gain root privileges. The advisory fixes/change is to...

CVE-2002-0174

nsd on SGI IRIX before 6.5.11 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the nsd.dump file...