CVE-2005-3785

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductGentoo Linux Eix
PublishedNov 23, 2005
First seenNov 23, 2005

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gentoo linux_eixv ≤ 0.3—

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