CVE-2005-4691 Information

Description

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3 NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005 certain versions of X.Org and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target which is used for a pre-formatted manual page.

Reference

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-009.txt.asc http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1015132 http://www.osvdb.org/20731 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15263