PT-2005-3546 · Polygen · Polygen

Justin Rye · Published 2005-09-06 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-2656

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Polygen versions prior to 1.0.6

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service due to disk consumption and possibly perform other unauthorized activities. This is because Polygen generates precompiled grammar objects with world-writable permissions.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.6, update to version 1.0.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2656

DSA-794-1

Affected Products

Polygen

References · 6

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-2656 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2656 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-2656 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2656 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-794 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/14722 · Note