CVE-2008-4974 Information

Description

rrdedit in netmrg 0.20 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/.xml and (2) /tmp/.backup temporary files.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496384 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/netmrg http://secunia.com/advisories/32490 http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30930 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44834