Vulnerability CVE-2007-0476
Published: 2007-01-24   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The gencert.sh script, when installing OpenLDAP before 2.1.30-r10, 2.2.x before 2.2.28-r7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.30-r2 as an ebuild in Gentoo Linux, does not create temporary directories in /tmp securely during emerge, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Gentoo -> Linux 

 References:
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0305
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-19.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/23881
http://osvdb.org/31617
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22195
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