Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5157

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-11-18 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:40:17
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

tau 2.16.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/makefile.tau.*.##### or (2) /tmp/makefile.tau*.##### temporary file, related to the (a) tau_cxx, (b) tau_f90, and (c) tau_cc scripts.