CVE-2008-4477
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 7, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 7, 2008
Description
alert.d/test.alert in mon 0.99.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the test.alert.log temporary file.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 32183third-party-advisory
- [debian-devel] 20080812 Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packagesmailing-list
- DSA-1648vendor-advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496398
- mon-testalert-symlink(45738)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/mon
- MDVSA-2008:214vendor-advisory
- 31597vdb-entry
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