CVE-2008-4955 Information

Description

freevo.real in freevo 1.8.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/-.pid (2) /tmp/freevo-gdb (3) /tmp/freevo-gdb.sh and (4) /tmp/.stats temporary files. NOTE: this issue is only a vulnerability when a verbose debug mode is activated by modifying source code.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496373 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/freevo http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770