CVE-2005-3785

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exi.X.sync temporary file, which is processed by the diff-eix program.

Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exi.X.sync temporary file, which is processed by the diff-eix program.

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

First reported 19 years ago

2005-11-23 23:03:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2011-03-08 02:27:00

Affected Software

Gentoo Gentoo Linux eix

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112061

17699

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200511-19

Patch, Vendor Advisory

15541

ADV-2005-2539

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