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CVE-2005-2180
published 2005-07-11

CVE-2005-2180: 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…

PriorityP410low2.1CVSS 2.0
AVLACLAuNCNIPAN
EPSS
0.35%
27.0th percentile
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

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
gnugnats
gnugnats
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