CVE-2008-4936 Information

Description

faxspool in mgetty 1.1.36 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/faxsp. temporary file.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496403 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/mgetty-fax http://secunia.com/advisories/33051 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-08.xml http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30927 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235806 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44833