CVE-2008-4979

Description

getipacctg in rancid 2.3.2~a8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/ipacct.#####.prefixes, (2) /tmp/ipacct.#####.sorted, (3) /tmp/ipacct.#####.pl, and (4) /tmp/ipacct.##### temporary files.

References

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30954

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

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/32588

http://bugs.debian.org/496426

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS