Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting sharutils package, versions [,4.2.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SHARUTILS-2374266
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 May 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2005

CVE-2005-0990  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for sharutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution unshar (unshar.c) in sharutils 4.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the unsh.X temporary file.

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CVSS Base Scores

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