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CVE-2005-2180 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/15963	CVE
http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt	CVE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/15963	[email protected]
http://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt	[email protected]

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
gnu gnats	4.0 4.1.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnats:4.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnats:4.1.0:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 16, 2026		[email protected]
Nov 20, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 18, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 11, 2005	Initial Analysis	[email protected]