None · Installwatch · CVE-2008-2958
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
checkinstall version 1.6.1
installwatch (affected versions not specified)
**Description**
A race condition exists, allowing local users to overwrite arbitrary files and have other impacts via symlink and possibly other attacks on temporary working directories.
**Recommendations**
For checkinstall version 1.6.1, update to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.
For installwatch, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.