Security Advisory

CVE-2003-0501

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2003-07-04 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 01:58:10
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The /proc filesystem in Linux allows local users to obtain sensitive information by opening various entries in /proc/self before executing a setuid program, which causes the program to fail to change the ownership and permissions of those entries.