CVE-2008-4975 Information

Description

mkmailpost in newsgate 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/mmp temporary file.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496437 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/newsgate http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30932 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770