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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2266
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-2266

Description:
uulib/uunconc.c in UUDeview 0.5.20, as used in nzbget before 0.3.0 and possibly other products, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary filename generated by the tempnam function. NOTE: this may be a CVE-2004-2265 regression.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA30171
  Secunia Advisory: SA31420

MLIST
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/30/1
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/14/10

MISC
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480972

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-11.xml

BID
  29211


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