CVE-2002-0211

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-05-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in the installation script for Tarantella Enterprise 3 3.01 through 3.20 creates a world-writeable temporary "gunzip" program before executing it, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the program before it is executed.

Affected products

Tarantella Enterprise: 3.3.0, 3.3.0.1, 3.3.10, 3.3.11, 3.3.20

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101208650722179&w=2
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/265845
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7996.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3966
http://www.tarantella.com/security/bulletin-04.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101208650722179&w=2
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/265845
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7996.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3966
http://www.tarantella.com/security/bulletin-04.html

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