CVE-2005-3580

HIGH 7.2CVE-2005-3580 · Published 16/11/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-3580 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting qdbm (qdbm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.40%, higher than 34.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
qdbm qdbm	`= 1.8.13= 1.8.14= 1.8.15= 1.8.16= 1.8.17= 1.8.21= 1.8.24= 1.8.30= 1.8.31`	No fix yet

Description

QDBM before 1.8.33-r2 allows local users in the portage group to increase privileges via a shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is added to the search path allowing objects in it to be loaded at runtime.

References

secunia.com/advisories/17427 · Patch
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-02.xml · Patch
osvdb.org/20527
securityfocus.com/bid/15120
vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2281

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