Vulnerability in Helix Code Gnome Installer

CVE-2000-0723

Helix GNOME Updater helix-update 0.5 and earlier does not properly create /tmp directories, which allows local users to create empty system configuration files such as /etc/config.d/bashrc, /etc/config.d/csh.cshrc, and /etc/rc.config.

EPSS: 0.003 (22.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Helix_code Gnome_installer — versions 0.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)