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CVE-2003-1279

N/A
Published: November 16, 2005 at 07:37 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorInsightful S-PLUS

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

Description

S-PLUS 6.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly elevate privileges via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/__F8499 by Sqpe, (2) /tmp/PRINT.$$.out by PRINT, (3) /tmp/SUBST$PID.TXT and /tmp/ed.cmds$PID by mustfix.hlinks, (4) /tmp/file.1 and /tmp/file.2 by sas_get, (5) /tmp/file.1 by sas_vars, and (6) /tmp/sgml2html$$tmp /tmp/sgml2html$$tmp1 /tmp/sgml2html$$tmp2 by sglm2html.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

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Patch and advisory references

References (5)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/7833
VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11005.php
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/305342
VDB Entryx_refsource_BID
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6530
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005896

CVSS

4.6MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other

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