CVE-2008-5034

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 10, 2008
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Nov 10, 2008

Description

master-filter in printfilters-ppd 2.13 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/filter.debug temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating 'this package does not have " possibility of attack with the help of symlinks"'

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
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/printfilters-ppd
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://bugs.debian.org/496417

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