National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4406
Original release date:10/03/2008
Last revised:02/18/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
A certain Debian patch to the run scripts for sabre (aka xsabre) 0.2.4b allows local users to delete or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified .tmp files.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
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
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External Source: XF
Name: xsabre-unspecified-symlink(45715)
External Source: XF
Name: xsabre-xrunsabre-symlink(45609)
External Source: BID
Name: 31512
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 48895
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081001 CVE id request: sabre
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/433996