CVE-2008-5394 Information

Description

/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux and probably other Linux distributions allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/332198 http://bugs.debian.org/505071 http://bugs.debian.org/505271 http://osvdb.org/52200 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-24.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4695 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:062 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498769/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32552 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-695-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47037 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7313