ID CVE-2005-4803 Type cve Reporter NVD Modified 2008-09-05T16:57:52
Description
graphviz before 2.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. NOTE: this issue was originally associated with a different CVE identifier, CVE-2005-2965, which had been used for multiple different issues. This is the correct identifier.
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