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.
Published: 2008-10-21
Score: 4.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-4618 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.
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Symantec Veritas File System
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:24:20.377Z

Reserved: 2008-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-4638

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-10-21T18:00:01.037

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-4638

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