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CVE-2004-1167

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2005-01-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

mirrorselect before 0.89 creates temporary files in a world-writable location with predictable file names, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected Platforms

Gentoo Mirrorselect

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References