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CVE-2005-3785

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exi.X.sync temporary file, which is processed by the diff-eix program.

Affected products

• gentoo Linux Eix: through 0.3

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112061
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17699
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-19.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15541
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2539
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112061
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17699
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-19.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15541
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2539

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