CVE-2008-1078 - CVE Reference - Advisories

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1078

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Description: expn in the am-utils and net-fs packages for Gentoo, rPath Linux, and other distributions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the expn[PID] temporary file. NOTE: this is the same issue as CVE-2003-0308.1.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29144 Secunia Advisory: SA29187 Secunia Advisory: SA29694 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-09.xml CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488931/100/0/threaded BID 28044

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