CVE-2007-0166

Medium

Description

The jail rc.d script in FreeBSD 5.3 up to 6.2 does not verify pathnames when writing to /var/log/console.log during a jail start-up, or when file systems are mounted or unmounted, which allows local root users to overwrite arbitrary files, or mount/unmount files, outside of the jail via a symlink attack.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.6
Exploit probability—
ProductFreebsd
PublishedJan 11, 2007
First seenJan 11, 2007

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
freebsd freebsdv ≤ 6.2, 5.3—

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