CVE-2005-0610 - Ambiguous Crap

Description

Multiple symlink vulnerabilities in portupgrade before 20041226_2 in FreeBSD allow local users to (1) overwrite arbitrary files and possibly replace packages to execute arbitrary code via pkg_fetch (2) overwrite arbitrary files via temporary files when portupgrade upgrades a port or package or (3) create arbitrary zero-byte files via the pkgdb.fixme temporary file.

Reference

http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/22f00553-a09d-11d9-a788-0001020eed82.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13106 http://secunia.com/advisories/14903