CVE-2005-2180

N/A

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published7/11/2005

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:gnats

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/15963(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/15963(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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