National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2663
Original release date:09/21/2005
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
masqmail before 0.2.18 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a log file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2005:168
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2005-1807
External Source: XF
Name: masqmail-log-file-symlink(22347)
External Source: BID
Name: 14890
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 19584
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-848
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17109
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16883
