CVE-2008-4949 Information

Description

dist 3.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/cil (b) /tmp/pdo and (c) /tmp/pdn temporary files related to the (1) patcil and (2) patdiff scripts.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496412 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/dist http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30908 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44818