CVE-2008-4984 Information

Description

scratchbox2 1.99.0.24 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/dpkg..tmp (b) /tmp/missing_deps. and (c) /tmp/sb2-pkg-chk.$tstamp. temporary files related to the (1) dpkg-checkbuilddeps and (2) sb2-check-pkg-mappings scripts.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496409 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/scratchbox2 http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30969 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44907