CVE-2005-4691

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: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page.

Affected products

Netbsd: 1.6, 1.6-beta, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 2.0, 2.0.1 (+1)

References

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015132
http://www.osvdb.org/20731
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15263
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015132
http://www.osvdb.org/20731
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15263

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