Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4996

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-11-07 19:00:00

Last updated 2025-01-17 15:24:30

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

init in initramfs-tools 0.92f allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/initramfs.debug temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that "init is [used in] a single-user context; there's no possibility that this is exploitable.

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