Fedora 8 : wyrd-1.4.3b-1.fc8 (2008-1986)

Bug 433719 - CVE-2008-0806 Wyrd uses insecure temporary file Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

Fedora 7 : wyrd-1.4.3b-1.fc7 (2008-1963)

Bug 433719 - CVE-2008-0806 Wyrd uses insecure temporary file Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

CVE-2008-0806

The CVE-2008-0806 issue affects wyrd 1.4.3b, where a local user can exploit a symlink race to overwrite the wyrd-tmp.[USERID] temporary file. Fedora advisories (FEDORA-2008-1986 and FEDORA-2008-1963) and Red Hat entries confirm this vulnerability in wyrd 1.4.3b, describing an insecure temporary f...