CVE-2005-0159: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The tpkg-* scripts in the toolchain-source 3.0.4 package on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.0 only
• Debian Toolchain-Source: version 3.0.3-1 only; version 3.0.3-2 only; version 3.0.3-3 only; version 3.0.4 only

Published 2005-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.