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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5297

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-5297

Description:
Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-373-1

TRUSTIX
  http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA22613
  Secunia Advisory: SA22640
  Secunia Advisory: SA22686
  Secunia Advisory: SA22685
  Secunia Advisory: SA25529

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0386.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10601

MLIST
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-dev&m=115999486426292&w=2

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:190

BID
  20733


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