National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4937
Original release date:11/05/2008
Last revised:08/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
senddoc in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.4.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/log.obr.##### temporary file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (11/06/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of OpenOffice.org as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/235824
External Source: XF
Name: openoffice-senddoc-symlink(44829)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-677-2
External Source: BID
Name: 30925
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:070
External Source: MISC
Name: http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200812-13
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33140
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/openoffice.org-common
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/496361
Vulnerable software and versions
| Configuration 1 |
| | OR |
| | | cpe:/a:openoffice:openoffice.org:2.4.1 |