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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4476
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CVE-2008-4476

Description:
sympa.pl in sympa 5.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sympa_aliases.$$ temporary file. NOTE: wwsympa.fcgi was also reported, but the issue occurred in a dead function, so it is not a vulnerability.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44499

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA31458

MLIST
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00312.html

MISC
  http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

CONFIRM
  http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sympa
  http://bugs.debian.org/496405
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969

BID
  30727


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