Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5394

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-09 00:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 10:49:12

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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