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CVE-2005-3343

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2005-12-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

tkdiff before 4.1.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• Tkdiff: 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 4.0, 4.0.2, 4.1

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18083
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18215
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015421
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=380030&group_id=64960
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-927
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:001
• http://www.osvdb.org/21933
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16064
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23858
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18083
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18215
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015421

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