National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6167

Overview

Untrusted search path vulnerability in yast2-core in SUSE Linux might allow local users to execute arbitrary code by creating a malicious yast2 module in the current working directory.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: BID

Name: 26634

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26634

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2007:024

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27756

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27756

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 44158

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/44158