CVE-2008-5144

nvidia-cg-toolkit-installer in nvidia-cg-toolkit 2.0.0015 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/nvidia-cg-toolkit-manifest temporary file.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-11-18

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Nvidia-cg-toolkit (Federico Di Gregorio)

References

• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32411