CVE-2003-0501 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2003-0501 at MITRE

Description

The /proc filesystem in Linux allows local users to obtain sensitive information by opening various entries in /proc/self before executing a setuid program, which causes the program to fail to change the ownership and permissions of those entries.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

SuSE-SA:2003:034, published Tue Aug 12 18:15:00 CEST 2003

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:23:44 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:33 2025