CVE-2005-2180

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Gnats
Vendor
CVE Published:
11 July 2005

Summary

gen-index in GNATS 4.0, 4.1.0, and possibly earlier versions, when installed setuid, does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt
x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/15963
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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