FKIE_CVE-2004-1167

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-01-10 05:00 - Updated: 2026-04-16 00:27
Severity
Summary
mirrorselect before 0.89 creates temporary files in a world-writable location with predictable file names, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/13392/
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-05.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18382
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/13392/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-05.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18382
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gentoo mirrorselect 0.80
gentoo mirrorselect 0.81
gentoo mirrorselect 0.82
gentoo mirrorselect 0.83
gentoo mirrorselect 0.84
gentoo mirrorselect 0.85
gentoo mirrorselect 0.86
gentoo mirrorselect 0.87
gentoo mirrorselect 0.88
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