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CVE-2005-3011

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2006-01-27 texindex -- temporary file privilege escalation

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2005-3011
Phase Assigned(20050921)

Description

The sort_offline function for texindex in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20070404 VMSA-2007-0003 VMware ESX 3.0.1 and 3.0.0 server security updates
MISC http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328365
CONFIRM http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-1121906-patch.html
CONFIRM http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-2559638-patch.html
CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
APPLE APPLE-SA-2007-05-24
DEBIAN DSA-1219
FREEBSD FreeBSD-SA-06:01
GENTOO GLSA-200510-04
MANDRIVA MDKSA-2005:175
REDHAT RHSA-2006:0727
SGI 20061101-01-P
SUSE SUSE-SR:2005:023
TRUSTIX TSLSA-2005-0059
UBUNTU USN-194-1
BID 14854
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10589
VUPEN ADV-2007-1267
VUPEN ADV-2007-1939
SECTRACK 1015468
SECTRACK 1014992
SECUNIA 16816
SECUNIA 18401
SECUNIA 17070
SECUNIA 17076
SECUNIA 17093
SECUNIA 17211
SECUNIA 17215
SECUNIA 22929
SECUNIA 23112
SECUNIA 24788
SECUNIA 25402