CVE-2003-0885
N/A
Published: February 28, 2006 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXscreensaver
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the (1) apple2, (2) xanalogtv, and (3) pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41253x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182286Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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