CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0476

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2007-01-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-01-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The gencert.sh script, when installing OpenLDAP before 2.1.30-r10, 2.2.x before 2.2.28-r7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.30-r2 as an ebuild in Gentoo Linux, does not create temporary directories in /tmp securely during emerge, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected configurations

• gentoo linux 2.1.30 • gentoo linux 2.2.28 • gentoo linux 2.3.30

References