Vulnerability CVE-2005-3785
Published: 2005-11-23   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exi.X.sync temporary file, which is processed by the diff-eix program.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Gentoo -> Linux eix 

 References:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-19.xml
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2539
http://secunia.com/advisories/17699
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112061
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15541
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