Vulnerability in Gentoo Linux Eix
CVE-2005-3785
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.
EPSS: 0.011 (62.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Gentoo Linux_eix
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_GENTOO, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)