The default stylesheet for DocBook on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.2 is installed with an insecure option enabled, which could allow users to overwrite files outside of the current directory from an untrusted document by using a full pathname as an element identifier.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:42:27.917Z

Reserved: 2002-04-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-0169

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-05-29T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-0169

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Publid Date: 2002-05-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2002-0169 - Bugzilla

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