CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-0525

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2008-01-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-01-31
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
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

PatchLink Update client for Unix, as used by Novell ZENworks Patch Management Update Agent for Linux/Unix/Mac (LUM) 6.2094 through 6.4102 and other products, allows local users to (1) truncate arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/patchlink.tmp file used by the logtrimmer script, and (2) execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the /tmp/plshutdown file used by the rebootTask script.

Affected configurations

• lumension security patchlink update 6.2 • lumension security patchlink update 6.3 • lumension security patchlink update 6.4 • novell zenworks patch management update agent 6.2 • novell zenworks patch management update agent 6.3 • novell zenworks patch management update agent 6.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References