CVE-2008-4985 Information

Description

vdrleaktest in Video Disk Recorder (aka vdr-dbg or vdr) 1.6.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/memleaktest.log temporary file.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496421 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/vdr-dbg http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt 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=235827 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44880