CVE-2005-1759

LOW 1.2CVE-2005-1759 · Published 28/06/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-1759 is a LOW (CVSS 1.2) vulnerability affecting shtool (shtool).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.35%, higher than 29.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
shtool shtool	`≤ 2.0.1`	No fix yet

Description

Race condition in shtool 2.0.1 and earlier allows local users to modify or create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files after they have been created, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1751.

References

bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi · Patch
marc.info
secunia.com/advisories/15668
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-08.xml · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/13767

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