CVE-2008-4935 Information

Description

asciiview in aview 1.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/aview.pgm temporary file.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496422 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/aview http://secunia.com/advisories/33139 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-14.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30885 https://bugs.gentoo.org/235808 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44837