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CVE-2005-3785

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2005-11-23 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exi.X.sync temporary file, which is processed by the diff-eix program.

Affected Platforms

Gentoo Linux Eix

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References