CVE-2008-4982 Information

Description

rkhunter in rkhunter 1.3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rkhunter-debug temporary file. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1270.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496375 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/rkhunter http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235798 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46511