CVE-2008-4979

2008-11-0611:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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

bugs.debian.org/496426

dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/rancid-util

secunia.com/advisories/32588

uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

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

www.securityfocus.com/bid/30954

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