Vulnerability CVE-2008-4085
Published: 2008-09-15   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.

Type:

CWE-59

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

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.4/10
6.4/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Stephenjungels -> Plait 

 References:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44786
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30928
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31617
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381
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