CVE-2008-4946

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 5, 2008
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Nov 5, 2008

Description

convirt 0.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/set_output temporary file, related to the (1) _template_/provision.sh, (2) Linux_CD_Install/provision.sh, (3) Fedora_PV_Install/provision.sh, (4) CentOS_PV_Install/provision.sh, (5) common/provision.sh, (6) example/provision.sh, and (7) Windows_CD_Install/provision.sh scripts in image_store/.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[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/convirt
http://bugs.debian.org/496419

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