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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3356
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CVE-2008-3356

Description:
verifydb in Ingres 2.6, Ingres 2006 release 1 (aka 9.0.4), and Ingres 2006 release 2 (aka 9.1.0) on Linux and other Unix platforms sets the ownership or permissions of an iivdb.log file without verifying that it is the application's own log file, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink with an iivdb.log filename.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44177

ST
  1020613

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA31357
  Secunia Advisory: SA31398

IDEFENSE
  http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=731

CONFIRM
  http://www.ingres.com/support/security-alert-080108.php

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495177/100/0/threaded

BID
  30512


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