CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-4691

2.1 LOW Published 2005-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page.

Affected configurations

• netbsd netbsd 1.6 • netbsd netbsd 1.6.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.6.2 • netbsd netbsd 2.0 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.1 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.2

References