AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
gen-index in GNATS 4.0, 4.1.0, and possibly earlier versions, when installed setuid, does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.
marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2
secunia.com/advisories/15963
www.pi3.int.pl/adv/gnats.txt