CVE-2005-2693 (GCVE-0-2005-2693)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-08-25 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 22:45
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1667 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi… x_refsource_CONFIRM
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-756.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/16765 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014857 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-802 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-806 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
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