CVE-2005-0824 — The internal_dump function in Mathopd before 1.5p5, and 1.6x before 1.6b6 BETA, when Mathopd is running with the -n option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on dump files that are triggered by a SIGWINCH signal

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The internal_dump function in Mathopd before 1.5p5, and 1.6x before 1.6b6 BETA, when Mathopd is running with the -n option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on dump files that are triggered by a SIGWINCH signal

Published Mar 23, 2005

5.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.36%

Description

The internal_dump function in Mathopd before 1.5p5, and 1.6x before 1.6b6 BETA, when Mathopd is running with the -n option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on dump files that are triggered by a SIGWINCH signal.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.36% 0.00360

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00360

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.36% (0.00360)	27.42th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.36% (0.00360)	27.63th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.04% (0.00037)	7.85th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-59

References (2)

http://secunia.com/advisories/14524
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkThird Party Advisory
http://www.mail-archive.com/mathopd%40mathopd.org/msg00272.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/14524		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkThird Party Advisory
http://www.mail-archive.com/mathopd%40mathopd.org/msg00272.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 23, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Mar 22, 2005

Link CVE-2005-0824

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-0824

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-0824