CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-2693
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
cvsbug in CVS 1.12.12 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack.
Affected configurations
• cvs cvs 1.12.12
References
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:20.cvsbug.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16765 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014857 securitytracker.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-802 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-806 www.debian.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-756.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1667 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166366 Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10835 oval.cisecurity.org
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:20.cvsbug.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16765 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014857 securitytracker.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-802 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-806 www.debian.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-756.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1667 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166366 Patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10835 oval.cisecurity.org