Vulnerability CVE-2005-4536


Published: 2005-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the [PID]-audit.log temporary file.

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
Debian -> Libmail-audit-perl 

 References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=344029
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-960
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16434
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0378
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24380

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