Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2008-4108

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Tools/faqwiz/move-faqwiz.sh aka the generic FAQ wizard moving tool in Python 2.4.5 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on ...

CVE-2008-4108

The CVE-2008-4108 entry concerns Tools/faqwiz/move-faqwiz.sh (the generic FAQ wizard moving tool) in Python 2.4.5, where a local attacker could cause a symlink attack on a temporary file (tmp$RANDOM.tmp) to overwrite arbitrary files. According to the NVD/mitigations notes, this is a local vulnera...