Vulnerability in Netbsd

CVE-2005-4691

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page.

EPSS: 0.003 (26.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Netbsd — versions 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

References