CVE-2005-4536

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the [PID]-audit.log temporary file.

Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the [PID]-audit.log temporary file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:29:00

Affected Software

Debian libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5

2.1-5

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=344029

18652

Vendor Advisory

18656

Vendor Advisory

DSA-960

Vendor Advisory

16434

ADV-2006-0378

perl-mail-audit-symlink(24380)

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