CVE-2005-4691

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-4691
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptionimake 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.6 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.6 beta All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.6.1 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 1.6.2 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 2.0 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 2.0.1 All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd 2.0.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-009.txt.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.netbsd.org
source-changes: CVS commit: [netbsd-3] xsrc/xfree/xc/config/cf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mail-index.netbsd.org
NetBSD Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
SecurityTracker.com Archives - NetBSD Bugs in Kernel, Networking, and Application Code May Let Local Users Deny Service or Gain Elevated Privileges af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Patch
netbsd-announce: Announcing update 2.0.3 - source only af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mail-index.netbsd.org
www.osvdb.org/20731 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org Patch
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