CVE-2005-2809

medium

Description

silc daemon (silcd.c) in Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) 1.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the silcd.[PID].stats temporary file.

References

http://www.zataz.net/adviso/silc-server-toolkit-06152005.txt

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14716

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/409672

http://secunia.com/advisories/16659/

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94587

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-09-07

Updated: 2026-04-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00079