CVE-2005-4691 (GCVE-0-2005-4691)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-02-01 02:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
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|---|---|
| http://securitytracker.com/id?1015132 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15263 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.osvdb.org/20731 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisori… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_NETBSD |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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