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CVE-2008-1078
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
expn in the am-utils and net-fs packages for Gentoo, rPath Linux, and other distributions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the expn[PID] temporary file. NOTE: this is the same issue as CVE-2003-0308.1..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.2/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 10/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Complete
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- Complete
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:o:rpath:rpath_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2255
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29144
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29187
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28044
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-09.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29694
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00273.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33400
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488931/100/0/threaded