CVE-2005-2180

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-07-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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 products

GNU Gnats: 4.0, 4.1.0

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/15963
http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/15963
http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt

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