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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2180
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-2180

Description:
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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA15963

MISC
  http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt

BUGTRAQ
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2


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