CVE-2008-4085

N/A Unknown

Published: September 15, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/31617

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30928

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44786

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381