Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2
- http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15963
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.