Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in tpkg-* Scripts

CVE-2005-0159 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The tpkg-* scripts in the toolchain-source 3.0.4 package on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

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