### [CVE-2005-2180](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2180)
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### Description

gen-index in GNATS 4.0, 4.1.0, and possibly earlier versions, when installed setuid, does not properly check files passed to the -o argument and opens the file with write access, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112066901231154&w=2

#### Github
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