CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4938
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-05
- 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
aegis 4.24 and aegis-web 4.24 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/#####, (b) /tmp/#####.intro, (c) /tmp/aegis.#####.ae, (d) /tmp/aegis.#####, (e) /tmp/aegis.#####.1, (f) /tmp/aegis.#####.2, (g) /tmp/aegis.#####.log, and (h) /tmp/aegis.#####.out temporary files, related to the (1) bng_dvlpd.sh, (2) bng_rvwd.sh, (3) awt_dvlp.sh, (4) awt_intgrtn.sh, and (5) aegis.cgi scripts.
Affected configurations
• aegis aegis 4.24
• aegis aegis-web 4.24
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/496400 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/496402 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496402 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/aegis Exploit
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/aegis-web dev.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31970 secunia.com
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2079025&group_id=224&atid=100224 sourceforge.net
- 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/30883 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44835 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/496400 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/496402 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496402 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/aegis Exploit
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/aegis-web dev.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31970 secunia.com
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2079025&group_id=224&atid=100224 sourceforge.net
- 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/30883 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44835 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com