CVE-2005-1707

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The fn_show_postinst function in Gentoo webapp-config before 1.10-r14 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the postinst.txt temporary file.

Affected products

gentoo Linux Webapp-Config: 1.10-r14

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91785
http://secunia.com/advisories/15445
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014027
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-13.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/16746
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13780
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0809
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/webapp-config-05182005.txt
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91785
http://secunia.com/advisories/15445
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014027
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-13.xml

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