CVE-2008-4085
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 15, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 15, 2008
Description
plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- plait-file-symlink(44786)vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfiremailing-list
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait
- 31617third-party-advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381
- 30928vdb-entry
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154
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