CVE-2005-0824: Mathopd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The internal_dump function in Mathopd before 1.5p5, and 1.6x before 1.6b6 BETA, when Mathopd is running with the -n option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on dump files that are triggered by a SIGWINCH signal.

Affected products

• Mathopd Mathopd: before 1.5 (fixed in 1.5); version 1.6 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.