CVE-2005-3580: Qdbm

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

QDBM before 1.8.33-r2 allows local users in the portage group to increase privileges via a shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is added to the search path allowing objects in it to be loaded at runtime.

Affected products

• Qdbm Qdbm: version 1.8.13 only; version 1.8.14 only; version 1.8.15 only; version 1.8.16 only; version 1.8.17 only; version 1.8.21 only; …

Published 2005-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.