Vulnerability CVE-2005-2180


Published: 2005-07-11   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
gen-index in GNATS 4.0, 4.1.0, and possibly earlier versions, when installed setuid, does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.

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
GNU -> Gnats 

 References:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2
http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/15963

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