CVE-2005-0990
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-04-06 04:00
Modified
2024-08-07 21:35
Severity ?
Summary
unshar (unshar.c) in sharutils 4.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the unsh.X temporary file.
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