Unscored CVE-2005-3785 EUVD-2005-3780GHSA-p7v3-6rr8-2vmj

Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files v…

Published Nov 23, 2005 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exi.X.sync temporary file, which is processed by the diff-eix program.

References

17699 third-party-advisory
GLSA-200511-19 vendor-advisory
ADV-2005-2539 vdb-entry
15541 vdb-entry
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112061