CVE-2008-4986

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 6, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Nov 6, 2008

Description

wims 3.62 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/env#####, (b) /tmp/sed#####, and (c) /tmp/referer-home.log temporary files, related to the (1) coqweb and (2) account.sh scripts.

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://bugs.debian.org/496387
32244vdb-entry
wims-coqweb-account-symlink(46510)vdb-entry
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/wims

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