CVE-2008-4085

N/A

Description

plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published9/15/2008

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

stephenjungels:plait

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381(cve@mitre.org)

http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/31617(cve@mitre.org)

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30928(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44786(cve@mitre.org)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/31617(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30928(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44786(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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