CVE-2003-0501 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2003-0501 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

SuSE-SA:2003:034, published Tue Aug 12 18:15:00 CEST 2003

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:23:44 2013
CVE page last modified: Wed Mar 26 11:13:54 2025