Description
gen-index in GNATS 4.0, 4.1.0, and possibly earlier versions, when installed setuid, does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 2.1/10
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:NAffected software
No affected versions have been published.
Timeline
- Published
- Jul 11, 2005
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified