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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-4536
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-4536

Description:
Mail::Audit module in libmail-audit-perl 2.1-5, when logging is enabled without a default log file specified, uses predictable log filenames, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the [PID]-audit.log temporary file.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24380

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA18652
  Secunia Advisory: SA18656

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-960

CONFIRM
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=344029

BID
  16434


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