Vulnerability CVE-2005-2656
Published: 2005-09-06   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Polygen before 1.0.6 generates precompiled grammar objects with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) and possibly perform other unauthorized activities.

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

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
None
Partial
Affected software
Polygen -> Polygen 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-794
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14722
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