← Database

CVE-2008-4638

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2008-10-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Symantec Veritas File System

Weakness Type

CWE-200

References