CVE-2007-5207 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

32%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

81%

guilt 0.27 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a guilt.log.[PID] temporary file.

guilt 0.27 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a guilt.log.[PID] temporary file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-10-04 21:17:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:33:00

Affected Software

Debian guilt 0.27

0.27

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445308

Exploit

41534

27076

25941

guilt-variable-symlink(36970)

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