CVE-2004-2698

N/A Unknown

Published: December 31, 2004 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

Race condition in IMWheel 1.0.0pre11 and earlier, when running with the -k option, allows local users to cause a denial of service (IMWheel crash) and possibly modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imwheel.pid file.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-08/0914.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://imwheel.sourceforge.net/files/DEVELOPMENT.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/12349

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://securitytracker.com/id?1011049

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2004-0002.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/9111

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11008

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17082

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-08/0914.html