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CVE-2005-2180

Severity Low
Score 2.1/10

Summary

gen-index in GNATS 4.0, 4.1.0, and possibly earlier versions, when installed setuid, does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published