CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4947
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
dhis-dummy-log-engine in dhis-server 5.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/dhis-dummy-log-engine.log temporary file.
Affected configurations
• guus sliepen dhis-server (<= 5.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/496388 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/dhis-server Exploit
- 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/30900 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/496388 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/dhis-server Exploit
- 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/30900 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org