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CVE-2008-4476
Published: Oct 7, 2008
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
sympa.pl in sympa 5.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sympa_aliases.$$ temporary file. NOTE: wwsympa.fcgi was also reported, but the issue occurred in a dead function, so it is not a vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
http://bugs.debian.org/496405
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sympa-sympa-symlink(44499)
vdb-entry
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[oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire
mailing-list
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
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30727
vdb-entry
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http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sympa
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31458
third-party-advisory
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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969
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