CVE-2005-3011

security flaw

Published Sep 21, 2005 CVSS 2.0 · 1.2 Low EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The sort_offline function for texindex in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1219-1 New texinfo packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-3011 The sort_offline function for texindex in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-194-1 texinfo vulnerability
References
Link Providers
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex.asc cve-icon cve-icon
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P cve-icon cve-icon
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328365 cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/16816 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17070 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17076 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17093 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17211 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17215 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18401 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22929 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23112 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24788 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014992 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015468 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1219 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-04.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:175 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0727.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464745/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14854 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-194-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-1121906-patch.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-2559638-patch.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1267 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3011 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10589 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3011 cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 10:53 PM
Reserved
Sep 21, 2005, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 21, 2005, 8:03 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:16 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Feb 9, 2000, 12:00 AM