CVE-2008-4638

medium

Description

qioadmin in the Quick I/O for Database feature in Symantec Veritas File System (VxFS) on HP-UX, and before 5.0 MP3 on Solaris, Linux, and AIX, allows local users to read arbitrary files by causing qioadmin to write a file's content to standard error in an error message.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46009

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2875

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.10.20.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31679

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497675/100/0/threaded

http://www.security-objectives.com/advisories/SECOBJSADV-2008-05.txt

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/310872.htm

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-10-21

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00067