CVE-2008-4987

Description

xastir 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/ldconfig.tmp, (b) /tmp/ldconf.tmp, and (c) /tmp/ld.so.conf temporary files, related to the (1) get-maptools.sh and (2) get_shapelib.sh scripts.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00307.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00199.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44920

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460429

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31030

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

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/31771

http://secunia.com/advisories/31677

http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/xastir

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3