CVE-2005-3342: Norman Ramsey Noweb

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

noweb 2.10c and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks on temporary files in (1) lib/toascii.nw and (2) shell/roff.mm.

Affected products

• Norman Ramsey Noweb: version 2.9a only; version 2.10c only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.