CVE-2008-4553 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4553
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Description: qemu-make-debian-root in qemu 0.9.1-5 on Debian GNU/Linux allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files and directories.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44831 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32335 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/14/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/13/2 MISC http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1657 CONFIRM http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/qemu http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496394 BID 30931

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