CVE-2004-1167

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

mirrorselect before 0.89 creates temporary files in a world-writable location with predictable file names, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

mirrorselect before 0.89 creates temporary files in a world-writable location with predictable file names, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Gentoo mirrorselect

First reported 20 years ago

2005-01-10 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

Gentoo mirrorselect 0.80

0.80

Gentoo mirrorselect 0.81

0.81

Gentoo mirrorselect 0.82

0.82

Gentoo mirrorselect 0.83

0.83

Gentoo mirrorselect 0.84

0.84

Gentoo mirrorselect 0.85

0.85

Gentoo mirrorselect 0.86

0.86

Gentoo mirrorselect 0.87

0.87

Gentoo mirrorselect 0.88

0.88

References

13392

GLSA-200412-05

Patch, Vendor Advisory

mirrorselect-symlink(18382)

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