Vulnerability CVE-2009-4135
Published: 2009-12-11   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
The distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 through 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file in a directory tree under /tmp.

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
GNU -> Coreutils 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=ae034822c535fa5
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126030454503441&w=2
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg18779.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg18787.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37256
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2473-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3453
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/54673
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545439
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00954.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00972.html
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