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CVE-2005-2180

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2005-07-11 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Gnu Gnats

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References