CVE-2008-4995 Information

Description

redirect.pl in bk2site 1.1.9 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/redirect.log temporary file. NOTE: this vulnerability is only limited to debug mode which is disabled by default.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496430 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/bk2site http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46543