CVE-2008-4978 Information

Description

radiance 3R9+20080530 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/opt.fmt (b) /tmp/out.fmt (c) /tmp/tf.dat (d) /tmp/gsf (e) /tmp/sc.sh (f) /tmp/il.pic (g) /tmp/tl.pic (h) /tmp/ds.pic (i) /tmp/tfa and (j) /tmp/sed temporary files related to the (1) optics2rad (2) pdelta (3) dayfact and (4) raddepend scripts.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496433 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/radiance http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30953 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44846