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CVE-2006-5297

CVE-2006-5297 PUBLISHED

Reported by mitre · Published October 16, 2006

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.

Affected Products

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Timeline

  • Oct 16, 2006 CVE Published
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