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CVE-2005-0610

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2005-04-12	portupgrade -- insecure temporary file handling vulnerability

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CVE-2005-0610 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2005-0610
Phase	Assigned(20050301)

Description

Multiple symlink vulnerabilities in portupgrade before 20041226_2 in FreeBSD allow local users to (1) overwrite arbitrary files and possibly replace packages to execute arbitrary code via pkg_fetch, (2) overwrite arbitrary files via temporary files when portupgrade upgrades a port or package, or (3) create arbitrary zero-byte files via the pkgdb.fixme temporary file.

References

Source	Reference
MISC	http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/22f00553-a09d-11d9-a788-0001020eed82.html
BID	13106
SECUNIA	14903