CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-4536

Published: Dec 31, 2005 | Modified: Jul 20, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the [PID]-audit.log temporary file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libmail-audit-perl Debian 2.1-5 (including) 2.1-5 (including)
Libmail-audit-perl Ubuntu dapper *
Libmail-audit-perl Ubuntu edgy *

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