Vulnerability CVE-2009-4193
Published: 2009-12-03   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Merkaartor 0.14 allows local users to append data to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/merkaartor.log temporary file.

Type:

CWE-59

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

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.3/10
4.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Merkaartor -> Merkaartor 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36529
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00870.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00869.html
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53486
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2320
http://secunia.com/advisories/36897
http://osvdb.org/58389
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548546
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