CVE-2008-4993 Information

Description

qemu-dm.debug in Xen 3.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/args temporary file.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496367 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/xen-utils-3.2-1 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:016 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0003.html https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235805 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46545 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9576