CVE-2008-4982

rkhunter in rkhunter 1.3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rkhunter-debug temporary file. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1270.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-11-06

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Rkhunter (John Horne)

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/496375
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/rkhunter
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235798
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46511