gen-index in GNATS 4.0, 4.1.0, and possibly earlier versions, when installed setuid, does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-07-10T04:00:00

Updated: 2016-10-17T13:57:01

Reserved: 2005-07-10T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2005-2180

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-07-11T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2016-10-18T03:25:27.893


Link: CVE-2005-2180

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