CVE-2008-4994

2008-11-0719:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

The (1) ncsarmt and (2) ncsawrap scripts in xmcd 2.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/Mosaic.*pid temporary file.

References

bugs.debian.org/496416

dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/xmcd

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

www.securityfocus.com/bid/32288

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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46550