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The installation of OpenOffice 1.0.1 allows local users to overwrite files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on the USERNAME_autoresponse.conf temporary file

Published Apr 4, 2006

Description

The installation of OpenOffice 1.0.1 allows local users to overwrite files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on the USERNAME_autoresponse.conf temporary file.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the RPM packages of OpenOffice as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (6)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 4, 2006
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Apr 4, 2006
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a