CVE-2008-4987
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 6, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 6, 2008
Description
xastir 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/ldconfig.tmp, (b) /tmp/ldconf.tmp, and (c) /tmp/ld.so.conf temporary files, related to the (1) get-maptools.sh and (2) get_shapelib.sh scripts.
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
- 31771third-party-advisory
- xastir-getmaptools-getshapelib-symlink(44920)vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2008-7541vendor-advisory
- [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/496383
- 31030vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2008-7269vendor-advisory
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460429
- 31677third-party-advisory
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/xastir
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