National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1751
Original release date:05/25/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Race condition in shtool 2.0.1 and earlier allows local users to create or modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .shtool.$$ temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1759.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/19/2006)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158995
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.zataz.net/adviso/shtool-05252005.txt
Type: Advisory
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200506-08
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1014059
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 15496
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93782
External Source: BID
Name: 13767
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:564
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-789
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 15668
External Source: OPENPKG
Name: OpenPKG-SA-2005.011
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:345
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:345
Type: Tool Signature