CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2266
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-05-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
uulib/uunconc.c in UUDeview 0.5.20, as used in nzbget before 0.3.0 and possibly other products, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary filename generated by the tempnam function. NOTE: this may be a CVE-2004-2265 regression.
Affected configurations
• nzbget nzbget (<= 0.2.2)
• nzbget nzbget 0.1.0a
• nzbget nzbget 0.1.1
• nzbget nzbget 0.1.2
• nzbget nzbget 0.2.0
• nzbget nzbget 0.2.1
• uudeview uudeview 0.5.20
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480972 bugs.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30171 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31420 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-11.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/14/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/30/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29211 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42407 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480972 bugs.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30171 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31420 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-11.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/14/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/30/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29211 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42407 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com