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 products
- gnu / gnats4.0 – 4.0
- gnu / gnats4.1.0 – 4.1.0
References
- MAILING_LISThttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2
- MISChttp://www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/15963