CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1078
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-02-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
expn in the am-utils and net-fs packages for Gentoo, rPath Linux, and other distributions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the expn[PID] temporary file. NOTE: this is the same issue as CVE-2003-0308.1.
Affected configurations
• gentoo linux
• rpath rpath linux
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29144 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29187 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29694 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33400 Vendor Advisory
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-09.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488931/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28044 www.securityfocus.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2255 issues.rpath.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00273.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29144 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29187 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29694 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33400 Vendor Advisory
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-09.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488931/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28044 www.securityfocus.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2255 issues.rpath.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00273.html www.redhat.com