CVE-2008-4986 Information

Description

wims 3.62 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/env (b) /tmp/sed and (c) /tmp/referer-home.log temporary files related to the (1) coqweb and (2) account.sh scripts.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496387 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/wims http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32244 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46510