CVE-2005-4691: Netbsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

imake in NetBSD before 2.0.3, NetBSD-current before 12 September 2005, certain versions of X.Org, and certain versions of XFree86 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file for the file.0 target, which is used for a pre-formatted manual page.

Affected products

• Netbsd Netbsd: version 1.6 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only

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