Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2005-0610

Multiple symlink vulnerabilities in portupgrade before 20041226_2 in FreeBSD allow local users to (1) overwrite arbitrary files and possibly replace packages to execute arbitrary code via pkg_fetch, (2) overwrite arbitrary files via temporary files when portupgrade upgrades a port or package, or (3) create arbitrary zero-byte files via the pkgdb.fixme temporary file.

EPSS: 0.004 (31.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Freebsd — versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

References