FKIE_CVE-2005-4691

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-12-31 05:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:19
Severity
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.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-009.txt.asc
cve@mitre.orghttp://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://securitytracker.com/id?1015132Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.osvdb.org/20731Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15263Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-009.txt.asc
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securitytracker.com/id?1015132Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/20731Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15263Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
netbsd netbsd 1.6
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
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