Unscored CVE-2003-1156 EUVD-2003-1146GHSA-q42h-v229-wv8h

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.4.2 through 1.4.2_02 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files vi…

Published May 10, 2005 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.4.2 through 1.4.2_02 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) unpack.log, as created by the unpack program, or (2) .mailcap1 and .mime.types1, as created by the RPM program.

References

20031031 Advisory: Sun's jre/jdk 1.4.2 multiple vulernabilities in linuxinstallers mailing-list
8937 vdb-entry
sun-jre-java-symlink(13570) vdb-entry