Vulnerability CVE-2004-0880
Published: 2005-01-27   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
getmail 4.x before 4.2.0, when run as root, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an mbox file.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.2/10
2.9/10
1.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Slackware -> Slackware linux 
Getmail -> Getmail 
Gentoo -> Linux 

 References:
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109571883130372&w=2
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-32.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-553
http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/CHANGELOG
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17437
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