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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1569

NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-1569

Description:
policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 and earlier allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files that are used when creating a socket.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41565

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA29553
  Secunia Advisory: SA29738

OSVDB
  43888

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1531

CONFIRM
  http://www.policyd-weight.org/

BID
  28480


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