CVE-2005-2180

LowCVSS 2.1/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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 2.1/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
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References

Timeline

Published: Jul 11, 2005
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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