CVE-2005-2693 Information

Description

cvsbug in CVS 1.12.12 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack.

Reference

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:20.cvsbug.asc http://secunia.com/advisories/16765 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014857 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-802 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-806 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-756.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1667 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166366 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10835