CVE-2005-2180 Information

Description

gen-index in GNATS 4.0 4.1.0 and possibly earlier versions when installed setuid does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/15963 http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt