National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4636
Original release date:11/27/2008
Last revised:12/03/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
yast2-backup 2.14.2 through 2.16.6 on SUSE Linux and Novell Linux allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in filenames used by the backup process.
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:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 32464
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32832
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:054
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: yast2backup-backup-command-execution(46879)
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 50284
