Vulnerability CVE-2005-1707
Published: 2005-05-24   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The fn_show_postinst function in Gentoo webapp-config before 1.10-r14 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the postinst.txt temporary file.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Gentoo -> Linux webapp-config 

 References:
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014027
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/webapp-config-05182005.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0809
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13780
http://www.osvdb.org/16746
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-13.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/15445
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91785
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