National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4085
Original release date:09/15/2008
Last revised:08/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
External Source: XF
Name: plait-file-symlink(44786)
External Source: BID
Name: 30928
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31617
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381