CVE-2008-4988 Information

Description

pscal in xcal 4.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/pscal temporary file.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496393 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/xcal http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770