CVE-2001-0117: Immunix

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sdiff 2.7 in the diffutils package allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Immunix Immunix: version 7.0_beta only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: version 1.0.1 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 7.0 only
• Trustix Secure Linux: version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only

Published 2001-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.