CVE-2005-2809 Information

Description

silc daemon (silcd.c) in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) 1.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the silcd.[PID].stats temporary file.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94587 http://secunia.com/advisories/16659/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/409672 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14716 http://www.zataz.net/adviso/silc-server-toolkit-06152005.txt