CVE-2008-4476 Information

Description

sympa.pl in sympa 5.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sympa_aliases.$$ temporary file. NOTE: wwsympa.fcgi was also reported but the issue occurred in a dead function so it is not a vulnerability.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496405 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sympa http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00312.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31458 http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30727 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44499