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CVE-2005-1879

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• 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: 2005-06-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

LutelWall 0.97 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file created by a system call to wget.

Affected products

• Lutelwall: before 0.98 — fixed in 0.98

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Lutelwall 0.98. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://firewall.lutel.pl/download/0.98/ChangeLog
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034424.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15647
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15665
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-10.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014112
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13863
• http://www.zataz.net/adviso/lutelwall-05222005.txt
• http://firewall.lutel.pl/download/0.98/ChangeLog
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-June/034424.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15647
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15665

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