National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5141
Original release date:11/18/2008
Last revised:03/03/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
flamethrower in flamethrower 0.1.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/multicast.tar.##### temporary file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
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: XF
Name: flamethrower-flamethrower-symlink(46717)
External Source: BID
Name: 32386
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1676
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32961
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32891
External Source: MLIST
Name: [debian-devel] 20080811 Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506350