CVE-2005-1707

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.0%

from disclosure to weapon2 days

Published on NVDMay 24

1st PoC+2d

exploitation probability

1.0%top 40% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The fn_show_postinst function in Gentoo webapp-config before 1.10-r14 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the postinst.txt temporary file.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/25709

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91785 http://secunia.com/advisories/15445 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014027 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-13.xml http://www.osvdb.org/16746 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13780 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0809 http://www.zataz.net/adviso/webapp-config-05182005.txt