CVE-2008-1078 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158 http://secunia.com/advisories/29144 http://secunia.com/advisories/29187 http://secunia.com/advisories/29694 http://secunia.com/advisories/33400 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-09.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488931/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28044 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2255 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00273.html