CVE-2005-0610

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-04-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple symlink vulnerabilities in portupgrade before 20041226_2 in FreeBSD allow local users to (1) overwrite arbitrary files and possibly replace packages to execute arbitrary code via pkg_fetch, (2) overwrite arbitrary files via temporary files when portupgrade upgrades a port or package, or (3) create arbitrary zero-byte files via the pkgdb.fixme temporary file.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 4.0, 4.0-alpha, 4.0-releng, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.1-release (+57)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/14903
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13106
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/22f00553-a09d-11d9-a788-0001020eed82.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/14903
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13106
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/22f00553-a09d-11d9-a788-0001020eed82.html

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