CVE-2005-1751 Information

Description

Race condition in shtool 2.0.1 and earlier allows local users to create or modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .shtool.$$ temporary file a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1759.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93782 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111955937622637&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/15496 http://secunia.com/advisories/15668 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014059 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-789 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-08.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-564.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13767 http://www.zataz.net/adviso/shtool-05252005.txt https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A345 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9639