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Published: 24/05/2005 Updated: 08/03/2011

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 465

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The fn_show_postinst function in Gentoo webapp-config prior to 1.10-r14 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the postinst.txt temporary file.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/13780/info Gentoo webapp-config is prone to an insecure file creation vulnerability This issue is due to a design error that causes the application to fail to verify the existence of a file before writing to it An attacker may leverage this issue to cause arbitrary shell commands to be executed with supe ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.zataz.net/adviso/webapp-config-05182005.txt http://www.osvdb.org/16746 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014027 http://secunia.com/advisories/15445 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91785 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-13.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13780 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0809 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25709/

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