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Unscored CVE-2005-2180 EUVD-2005-2181GHSA-g39g-23cc-mm8f

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 argumen…

Published Jul 10, 2005 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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.

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