CVE-2005-2672: Lm Sensors

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Lm Sensors Lm Sensors: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; …

Published 2005-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.