CVE-2008-4476
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 7, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 7, 2008
Description
sympa.pl in sympa 5.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sympa_aliases.$$ temporary file. NOTE: wwsympa.fcgi was also reported, but the issue occurred in a dead function, so it is not a vulnerability.
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
- [debian-devel] 20080812 Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packagesmailing-list
- http://bugs.debian.org/496405
- sympa-sympa-symlink(44499)vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfiremailing-list
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- 30727vdb-entry
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sympa
- 31458third-party-advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969
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