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CVE-2006-5297

CVE information

Published

17 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

Impact Analysis

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Description

Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
1.2/10
Exploit Score
1.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.3.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.2.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:0.95.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.3.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.3.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.3.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.3.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.2.5.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.2.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.3.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.3.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.3.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.2.5.12_ol:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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