CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-3531

6.6 MEDIUM Published 2007-07-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-07-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The set_default_speeds function in backend/backend.c in NVidia NVClock before 0.8b2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/nvclock temporary file.

Affected configurations

• gentoo nvclock (<= 0.7)

References