National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2002-0678
Orirignal release date: 2002-07-23
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    CDE ToolTalk database server (ttdbserver) allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the transaction log file used by the _TT_TRANSACTION RPC procedure.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: local
    Authentication: input
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1" other="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Tru64 (Compaq)
    AIX (IBM)
    OpenUnix (Caldera)
    HP-UX (HP)
    IRIX (SGI)
    Solaris (Sun)
    UnixWare (Caldera)
    DeXtop (Xi Graphics)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0678