CVE-2004-1107 describes a local file overwrite vulnerability in dispatch-conf within Portage 2.0.51-r2 and earlier, affecting Gentoo Linux. An attacker could exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access and low attack complexity, with a potential impact of partial integrity loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it is not listed in the KEV catalog, though it has garnered some community discussion on GitHub.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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