Unscored CVE-2000-1018 EUVD-2000-1005GHSA-4jwj-9x7x-p48c

shred 1.0 file wiping utility does not properly open a file for overwriting or flush its buffers, which prevents shred from properly replac…

Published Jan 22, 2001 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

shred 1.0 file wiping utility does not properly open a file for overwriting or flush its buffers, which prevents shred from properly replacing the file's data and allows local users to recover the file.

References

shred-recover-files(5722) vdb-entry
20001011 Shred v1.0 Fix mailing-list
20001010 Shred 1.0 Bug Report mailing-list
1788 vdb-entry