CVE-2008-2958

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 1, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Jul 1, 2008

Description

Race condition in (1) checkinstall 1.6.1 and (2) installwatch allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and have other impacts via symlink and possibly other attacks on temporary working directories.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

30873third-party-advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488140
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/secure-testing-team/2008-June/001672.html
checkinstall-multiple-symlink(43440)vdb-entry

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