CVE-2008-4968 Information

Description

The (1) rccs and (2) STUFF scripts in lmbench 3.0-a7 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/sdiff. temporary file.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496427 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/lmbench http://secunia.com/advisories/32587 http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30913 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44828