Vulnerability in Redhat Linux

CVE-2001-0635

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (30.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Redhat Linux — versions 7.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)