Vulnerability CVE-2008-4935
Published: 2008-11-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
asciiview in aview 1.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/aview#####.pgm temporary file.

Type:

CWE-59

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

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Amiga -> Aview 

 References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://bugs.gentoo.org/235808
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44837
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30885
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-14.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/33139
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/aview
http://bugs.debian.org/496422
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