CVE-2005-0610: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple symlink vulnerabilities in portupgrade before 20041226_2 in FreeBSD allow local users to (1) overwrite arbitrary files and possibly replace packages to execute arbitrary code via pkg_fetch, (2) overwrite arbitrary files via temporary files when portupgrade upgrades a port or package, or (3) create arbitrary zero-byte files via the pkgdb.fixme temporary file.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only; version 4.4 only; …

Published 2005-04-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.