CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5297

Published: Oct 16, 2006 | Modified: Oct 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
1.2 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mutt Mutt * 1.5.12 (including)
Mutt Mutt 0.95.6 (including) 0.95.6 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.2.1 (including) 1.2.1 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.2.5 (including) 1.2.5 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.2.5.1 (including) 1.2.5.1 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.2.5.4 (including) 1.2.5.4 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.2.5.5 (including) 1.2.5.5 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.2.5.12 (including) 1.2.5.12 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.2.5.12_ol (including) 1.2.5.12_ol (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.3.12 (including) 1.3.12 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.3.12.1 (including) 1.3.12.1 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.3.16 (including) 1.3.16 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.3.17 (including) 1.3.17 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.3.22 (including) 1.3.22 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.3.24 (including) 1.3.24 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.3.25 (including) 1.3.25 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.3.27 (including) 1.3.27 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.3.28 (including) 1.3.28 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.4.0 (including) 1.4.0 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.4.1 (including) 1.4.1 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.4.2 (including) 1.4.2 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.4.2.1 (including) 1.4.2.1 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.5.3 (including) 1.5.3 (including)
Mutt Mutt 1.5.10 (including) 1.5.10 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RedHat mutt-5:1.4.1-5.el3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat mutt-5:1.4.1-12.0.3.el4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat mutt-5:1.4.2.2-3.0.2.el5 *
Mutt Ubuntu dapper *
Mutt Ubuntu devel *
Mutt Ubuntu edgy *
Mutt Ubuntu feisty *

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