CVE-2008-4978

Summary

radiance 3R9+20080530 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/opt.fmt, (b) /tmp/out#####.fmt, (c) /tmp/tf#####.dat, (d) /tmp/gsf#####, (e) /tmp/sc#####.sh, (f) /tmp/il#####.pic, (g) /tmp/tl#####.pic, (h) /tmp/ds#####.pic, (i) /tmp/tfa#####, and (j) /tmp/sed##### temporary files, related to the (1) optics2rad, (2) pdelta, (3) dayfact, and (4) raddepend scripts.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30953
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/radiance
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44846
• http://bugs.debian.org/496433

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30953
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/radiance
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44846
• http://bugs.debian.org/496433

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