CVE-2005-2809 (GCVE-0-2005-2809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-09-07 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 22:45
VLAI
Summary
silc daemon (silcd.c) in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) 1.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the silcd.[PID].stats temporary file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/16659/ third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/silc-server-toolkit-0… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14716 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/409672 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94587 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2005-09-01 00:00
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