CVE-2008-4085 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4085
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Description: plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44786 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31617 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 CONFIRM http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381 BID 30928

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