CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5394

7.2 HIGH Published 2008-12-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-12-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.

Affected configurations

• debian shadow 4.0.18.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References