CVE-2006-5297

Severity

12%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

48%

Race Condition occurs when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem.

Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems.

Race Condition occurs when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Mutt

First reported 18 years ago

2006-10-16 19:07:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

Mutt 1.5.3

1.5.3

Mutt 1.5.10

1.5.10

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