CVE-2005-3785: Gentoo Linux Eix

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Second-order symlink vulnerability in eix-sync.in in Ebuild IndeX (eix) before 0.5.0_pre2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exi.X.sync temporary file, which is processed by the diff-eix program.

Affected products

• Gentoo Linux Eix: up to and including 0.3

Published 2005-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.