CVE-2008-4085 Information

Description

plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$ (2) head.$$ (3) awk.$$ and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait http://secunia.com/advisories/31617 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30928 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44786