Vulnerability CVE-2008-4978


Published: 2008-11-06   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
radiance 3R9+20080530 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/opt.fmt, (b) /tmp/out#####.fmt, (c) /tmp/tf#####.dat, (d) /tmp/gsf#####, (e) /tmp/sc#####.sh, (f) /tmp/il#####.pic, (g) /tmp/tl#####.pic, (h) /tmp/ds#####.pic, (i) /tmp/tfa#####, and (j) /tmp/sed##### temporary files, related to the (1) optics2rad, (2) pdelta, (3) dayfact, and (4) raddepend scripts.

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
Radiance -> Radiance 

 References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44846
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30953
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/radiance
http://bugs.debian.org/496433

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