CVE-2005-4691

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page.

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page.

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

Type

NetBSD

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:57:00

Affected Software

NetBSD 1.6

1.6

NetBSD 1.6 Beta

1.6

NetBSD 1.6.1

1.6.1

NetBSD 1.6.2

1.6.2

NetBSD 2.0

2.0

NetBSD 2.0.1

2.0.1

NetBSD 2.0.2

2.0.2

References

2005-009

[netbsd-announce] 20051031 Announcing update 2.0.3 - source only

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html

1015132

Patch

20731

Patch

15263

Patch

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