CVE-2005-2672

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2005-08-14
Bugzilla:
1617739: CVE-2005-2672 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

pwmconfig in LM_sensors before 2.9.1 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the fancontrol temporary file.

Find out more about CVE-2005-2672 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (lm_sensors) RHSA-2005:825 2005-11-10

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