CVE-2008-4979 Information

Description

getipacctg in rancid 2.3.2~a8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/ipacct..prefixes (2) /tmp/ipacct..sorted (3) /tmp/ipacct..pl and (4) /tmp/ipacct. temporary files.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496426 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/rancid-util http://secunia.com/advisories/32588 http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30954 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770