CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2180

Published: Jul 11, 2005 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2180
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Gnats	Gnu	4.0	4.0
Gnats	Gnu	4.1.0	4.1.0

References

http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/15963
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=112066901231154\u0026w=2

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