CVE-2008-1078

UNRATED

Description

expn in the am-utils and net-fs packages for Gentoo, rPath Linux, and other distributions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the expn[PID] temporary file. NOTE: this is the same issue as CVE-2003-0308.1.

Affected products

gentoo / linux
rpath / rpath_linux

References

MISChttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00273.html
MISChttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158
VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088
VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29144
VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29694
MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488931/100/0/threaded
MISChttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2255
VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29187
MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28044
MISChttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-09.xml
VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/33400