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CVE-2005-3011

10
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3011 describes a local arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability in the sort_offline function of texindex within GNU texinfo versions 4.8 and earlier. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite files by exploiting a symlink race condition on temporary files. With a CVSS score of 1.2, this vulnerability has low impact, requiring high attack complexity and local access, resulting in partial integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:texinfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.2LOW

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: texinfo-0:4.0b-3.el2.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: texinfo-0:4.5-3.el3.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: texinfo-0:4.7-5.el4.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-3011Low

security flaw

Feb 9, 2000

References

ftp.freebsd.org / pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex.asc
patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Exploit
docs.info.apple.com / article.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
lists.trustix.org / pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html
secunia.com / advisories/16816
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17070
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17076
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17093
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17211
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/17215
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/18401
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/22929
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23112
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24788
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25402
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10589
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1219
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-04.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0727.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/464745/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/14854
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-194-1
vmware.com / support/vi3/doc/esx-1121906-patch.html
vmware.com / support/vi3/doc/esx-2559638-patch.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/1267
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/1939
Vendor Advisory