CVE-2008-4938

Description

aegis 4.24 and aegis-web 4.24 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/#####, (b) /tmp/#####.intro, (c) /tmp/aegis.#####.ae, (d) /tmp/aegis.#####, (e) /tmp/aegis.#####.1, (f) /tmp/aegis.#####.2, (g) /tmp/aegis.#####.log, and (h) /tmp/aegis.#####.out temporary files, related to the (1) bng_dvlpd.sh, (2) bng_rvwd.sh, (3) awt_dvlp.sh, (4) awt_intgrtn.sh, and (5) aegis.cgi scripts.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44835

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30883

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2079025&group_id=224&atid=100224

http://secunia.com/advisories/31970

http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/aegis-web

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496402

http://bugs.debian.org/496402

http://bugs.debian.org/496400

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

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