CVE-2008-1570 Information

Description

Race condition in the create_lockpath function in policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files by creating the LOCKPATH directory then modifying it after the symbolic link check occurs. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-1569.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/29738 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml http://www.osvdb.org/43888 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214403 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41570