CVE-2003-0847: Suse Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SuSEconfig.susewm in the susewm package on SuSE Linux 8.2Pro allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the susewm.$$ temporary file.

Affected products

• Suse Suse Linux: version 8.2 only

Published 2003-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.