Vulnerability CVE-2005-0824


Published: 2005-05-02   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The internal_dump function in Mathopd before 1.5p5, and 1.6x before 1.6b6 BETA, when Mathopd is running with the -n option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on dump files that are triggered by a SIGWINCH signal.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Mathopd -> Mathopd 

 References:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14524
http://www.mail-archive.com/mathopd%40mathopd.org/msg00272.html

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