Security Advisory

CVE-2001-0635

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-03-09 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 04:30:05
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Red Hat Linux 7.1 sets insecure permissions on swap files created during installation, which can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges by reading sensitive information from the swap file, such as passwords.