CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4993
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-07
- 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
qemu-dm.debug in Xen 3.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/args temporary file.
Affected configurations
• xen xen 3.2.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/496367 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/xen-utils-3.2-1 dev.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:016 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0003.html www.redhat.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235805 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46545 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9576 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/496367 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/xen-utils-3.2-1 dev.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:016 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0003.html www.redhat.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235805 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46545 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9576 oval.cisecurity.org