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CVE-2005-0990

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Entered Topic
2005-05-01 sharutils -- unshar insecure temporary file creation

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CVE-2005-0990 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2005-0990
Phase Assigned(20050406)

Description

unshar (unshar.c) in sharutils 4.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the unsh.X temporary file.

References

Source Reference
REDHAT RHSA-2005:377
UBUNTU USN-104-1
MISC http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=302412
MISC https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8459
BID 12981
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9613
XF sharutils-temp-file-symlink(19957)

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