CVE - CVE-2005-4691

CVE-ID
CVE-2005-4691	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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
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BID:15263 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15263 CONFIRM:http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html MLIST:[netbsd-announce] 20051031 Announcing update 2.0.3 - source only URL:http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html NETBSD:2005-009 URL:ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-009.txt.asc OSVDB:20731 URL:~~http://www.osvdb.org/20731~~ (Obsolete source) SECTRACK:1015132 URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015132
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20060131	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20060131)
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Comments (Legacy)

Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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