CVE-2008-4950

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 5, 2008
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Nov 5, 2008

Description

gccross in dpkg-cross 2.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmp/gccross2.log temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that "There is no sense in this bug - the script ... is called under specific cross-building environments within a chroot.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/dpkg-cross
[oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfiremailing-list
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://bugs.debian.org/496413

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