Description (CNA)
plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44786
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31617
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30928
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44786
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31617
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30928
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154