Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4949

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-11-05 14:51:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:31:28
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

dist 3.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/cil#####, (b) /tmp/pdo#####, and (c) /tmp/pdn##### temporary files, related to the (1) patcil and (2) patdiff scripts.