CVE-2011-1920

low

Published 2011-05-23 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.3

Description

The make include files in NetBSD before 1.6.2, as used in pmake 1.111 and other products, allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/_depend##### temporary file, related to (1) bsd.lib.mk and (2) bsd.prog.mk.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

FreeBSD Affected 18 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
1.6	Affected	—
1.5.3	Affected	—
1.5.2	Affected	—
1.5.1	Affected	—
1.5	Affected	—
1.4.3	Affected	—
1.4.2	Affected	—
1.4.1	Affected	—
1.4	Affected	—
1.3.3	Affected	—
1.3.2	Affected	—
1.3.1	Affected	—
1.3	Affected	—
1.2.1	Affected	—
1.2	Affected	—
1.1	Affected	—
1.0	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
ihji	pmake	`1.111`

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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