Bug 1617775 (CVE-2005-3011)

Summary:	CVE-2005-3011 security flaw
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Stephen Herr <sherr>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 04:39:34 UTC

Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.

Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:29:11 UTC

MITRE description:

The sort_offline function for texindex in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:25:46 UTC

Statement:

Updated packages to correct this issue are available along with our advisory:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/CVE-2005-3011.html

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.