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

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:15:37.673Z

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

Link: CVE-2005-2180

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

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

Link: CVE-2005-2180

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