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CVE-2005-4784

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Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the POSIX readdir_r function, as used in multiple packages, allow local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a symlink attack that exploits a race condition between opendir and pathcon calls and changes the filesystem to one with a larger maximum directory-entry name length, or (2) possibly via programmer-introduced errors on operating systems with a small struct dirent, such as Solaris or BeOS, as demonstrated in packages including (a) gcj, (b) KDE, (c) libwww, (d) the Rudiments library, (e) teTeX, (f) xmail, (g) bfbtester, (h) ncftp, (i) netwib, (j) OpenOffice.org, (k) Pike, (l) reprepro, (m) Tcl, and (n) xgsmlib.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/31/2005

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

austin_group:posix

References

http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/readdir_r-advisory.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415781(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415790/30/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415995/30/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415998/30/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415999/30/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/416002/30/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/416048/30/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15259(cve@mitre.org)

http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/readdir_r-advisory.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415781(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415790/30/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415995/30/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415998/30/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415999/30/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/416002/30/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/416048/30/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15259(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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