CVE-2005-0990 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0990
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Description: unshar (unshar.c) in sharutils 4.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the unsh.X temporary file.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19957 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-104-1 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-377.html MISC http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=302412 BID 12981

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