EUVD-2008-1571

Malware in sbrugna...

Race condition

Race condition in the createlockpath function in policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files by creating the LOCKPATH directory, then modifying it after the symbolic link check occurs. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-1569...

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1570

Race condition in the createlockpath function in policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files by creating the LOCKPATH directory, then modifying it after the symbolic link check occurs. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-1569...

CVE-2008-1570

policyd-weight contains a local race condition in create_lockpath that lets unprivileged users modify or delete files by exploiting the LOCKPATH handling. The issue affects the insecure handling of the temporary directory, noted as a result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-1569, and is discussed...