Security Advisory

CVE-2006-5297

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-10-16 19:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 19:48:29

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in the safe_open function in the Mutt mail client 1.5.12 and earlier, when creating temporary files in an NFS filesystem, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files due to limitations of the use of the O_EXCL flag on NFS filesystems.

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