CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1167

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-01-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-01-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

mirrorselect before 0.89 creates temporary files in a world-writable location with predictable file names, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected configurations

• gentoo mirrorselect 0.80 • gentoo mirrorselect 0.81 • gentoo mirrorselect 0.82 • gentoo mirrorselect 0.83 • gentoo mirrorselect 0.84 • gentoo mirrorselect 0.85 • gentoo mirrorselect 0.86 • gentoo mirrorselect 0.87 • gentoo mirrorselect 0.88

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