CVE-2005-4691
N/A
Published: February 1, 2006 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNetBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (6)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_NETBSD
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-009.txt.ascMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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