CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-3785

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-11-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-11-23
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

Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exi.X.sync temporary file, which is processed by the diff-eix program.

Affected configurations

• gentoo linux eix (<= 0.3)

References