CVE-2008-5007 Information

Description

create_lazarus_export_tgz.sh in lazarus 0.9.24 allows local users to overwrite or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/lazarus.tgz temporary file or a (2) /tmp/lazarus temporary directory.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496377 http://code.google.com/p/bollin/source/browse/lazarus/trunk/debian/patches/07_sh_using_tmp.dpatch?spec=svn3462&r=3462 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/lazarus-src http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30917 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235828 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44824