# CVE-2005-4691: imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows loc

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2006-02-01 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015132
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/09/12/0043.html
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15263
- http://www.osvdb.org/20731
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-009.txt.asc

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