cve/2004/CVE-2004-2502.md

### [CVE-2004-2502](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2502)
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### Description

im-switch before 11.4-46.1 in Fedora Core 2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the imswitcher[PID] temporary file.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/0407-advisories/fedora_im-switch_tempfile_race.txt

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.