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CVE-2003-0847

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

SuSEconfig.susewm in the susewm package on SuSE Linux 8.2Pro allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the susewm.$$ temporary file.

Affected products

• Suse Linux: 8.2

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106545972615578&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106546531922379&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106545972615578&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106546531922379&w=2

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