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CVE-2005-2180
Published: Jul 10, 2005
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
20050706 GNATS - gen-index
mailing-list
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http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt
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15963
third-party-advisory
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