CVE-2002-0129 (GCVE-0-2002-0129)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-03-15 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:42
VLAI
Summary
efax 0.9 and earlier, when installed setuid root, allows local users to read arbitrary files via the -d option, which prints the contents of the file in a warning message.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7921.php vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3895 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=101114350330912&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_VULN-DEV
Date Public
2002-01-16 00:00
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