CVE-2008-4936

medium

Description

faxspool in mgetty 1.1.36 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/faxsp.##### temporary file.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44833

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235806

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30927

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

http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-08.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/33051

http://bugs.debian.org/496403

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-11-05

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium