CVE-2008-4474 Information

Description

freeradius-dialupadmin in freeradius 2.0.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in (1) backup_radacct (2) clean_radacct (3) monthly_tot_stats (4) tot_stats and (5) truncate_radacct.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496389 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/freeradius-dialupadmin http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00271.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32170 http://secunia.com/advisories/33151 http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30901 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770