PT-2005-5356 · Xfree86+2 · Xfree86+3

Published 2005-12-31 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-4691

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions imake in NetBSD versions prior to 2.0.3 imake in NetBSD-current versions prior to 12 September 2005 X.Org (affected versions not specified) XFree86 (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue 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.

Recommendations For imake in NetBSD versions prior to 2.0.3, update to version 2.0.3 or later. For imake in NetBSD-current versions prior to 12 September 2005, update to a version from after 12 September 2005. For X.Org and XFree86, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-4691

Affected Products

Netbsd

X.Org

Xfree86

Imake

References · 7

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015132 · Patch
• ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-009.txt.asc · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/15263 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4691 · Security Note
• http://osvdb.org/20731 · Patch
• http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html · Note
• http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html · Note