CVE-2005-1707 Information

Description

The fn_show_postinst function in Gentoo webapp-config before 1.10-r14 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the postinst.txt temporary file.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91785 http://secunia.com/advisories/15445 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014027 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-13.xml http://www.osvdb.org/16746 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13780 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0809 http://www.zataz.net/adviso/webapp-config-05182005.txt