CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4476
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
sympa.pl in sympa 5.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sympa_aliases.$$ temporary file. NOTE: wwsympa.fcgi was also reported, but the issue occurred in a dead function, so it is not a vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• sympa sympa 5.3.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/496405 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sympa dev.gentoo.org
- http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00312.html lists.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31458 Vendor Advisory
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt uvw.ru
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30727 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44499 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/496405 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sympa dev.gentoo.org
- http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00312.html lists.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31458 Vendor Advisory
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt uvw.ru
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30727 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44499 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com