CVE-2008-4998

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 7, 2008
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Nov 7, 2008

Description

postinst in twiki 4.1.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/twiki temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating "this bug is invalid.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494648
[oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfiremailing-list
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235802

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