Vulnerability CVE-2008-4937
Published: 2008-11-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
senddoc in OpenOffice.org (OOo) 2.4.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/log.obr.##### temporary file.

Type:

CWE-59

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

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
4.9/10
1.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Openoffice -> Openoffice.org 

 References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://bugs.gentoo.org/235824
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44829
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-677-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-677-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30925
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:070
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-13.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/33140
http://secunia.com/advisories/32856
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/openoffice.org-common
http://bugs.debian.org/496361
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