CVE-2007-3103

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: 2007-07-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The init.d script for the X.Org X11 xfs font server on various Linux distributions might allow local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/.font-unix temporary file.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora Core: 6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 4.0
RedHat Linux: all versions

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185660
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/242903
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=557
http://osvdb.org/40945
http://secunia.com/advisories/26056
http://secunia.com/advisories/26081
http://secunia.com/advisories/26282
http://secunia.com/advisories/27240
http://secunia.com/advisories/35674
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-11.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1342
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0519.html

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