CVE-2008-1078 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-02-29 02:44:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-11 20:29:00

Affected Software

Gentoo Linux

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158

Exploit

29144

Vendor Advisory

29187

Vendor Advisory

29694

Vendor Advisory

33400

Vendor Advisory

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088

GLSA-200804-09

20080228 rPSA-2008-0088-1 am-utils

28044

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2255

FEDORA-2008-10755

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