CVE-2005-1064 - Convincing Fire

Description

The copy_symlink function in rsnapshot 1.2.0 and 1.1.x before 1.1.7 changes the ownership of files that a symlink points to rather than the symlink itself which allows local users to obtain access to arbitrary files.

Reference

http://www.rsnapshot.org/security/2005/001.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1013674 http://secunia.com/advisories/14878 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-12.xml http://www.osvdb.org/15420 http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=111317179531000&w=2