Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2005-4691 First vendor Publication 2005-12-31
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2008-09-05

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4691

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 7

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
20731 NetBSD imake file.0 Target Insecure /tmp File Creation

NetBSD contains a flaw that may allow a malicious local user to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. The issue is due to the imake program creating Makefiles in the /tmp directory insecurely. It is possible for a user to use a symlink style attack to overwrite arbitrary files, resulting in a loss of integrity.

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15263
CONFIRM http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html
MLIST http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html
NETBSD ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-009.txt.asc
OSVDB http://www.osvdb.org/20731
SECTRACK http://securitytracker.com/id?1015132

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