CVE-2008-2266 Information

Description

uulib/uunconc.c in UUDeview 0.5.20 as used in nzbget before 0.3.0 and possibly other products allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary filename generated by the tempnam function. NOTE: this may be a CVE-2004-2265 regression.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480972 http://secunia.com/advisories/30171 http://secunia.com/advisories/31420 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-11.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/14/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/30/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29211 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42407