National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2693
Original release date:08/26/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
cvsbug in CVS 1.12.12 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166366
Type: Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:756
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2005-1667
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-806
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-802
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1014857
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16765
External Source: FREEBSD
Name: FreeBSD-SA-05:20