Vulnerability CVE-2008-1569
Published: 2008-03-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-59

 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.3/10
4.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Policyd-weight -> Policyd-weight 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28480
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214403
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41565
http://www.policyd-weight.org/
http://www.osvdb.org/43888
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1531
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/29738
http://secunia.com/advisories/29553
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