Vulnerability in Gnu Gnats

CVE-2005-2180

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.

EPSS: 0.003 (27.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Gnu Gnats — versions 4.0, 4.1.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)