PT-2008-5059 · Kde · Amarok

Published 2008-08-14 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3699

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.3

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Amarok versions prior to 1.4.10

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the album info.xml temporary file. This is due to a problem in the MagnatuneBrowser::listDownloadComplete function in magnatunebrowser/magnatunebrowser.cpp.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.4.10, update to version 1.4.10 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the album info.xml temporary file to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3699

Affected Products

Amarok

References · 20

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3699 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31418 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-08.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00097.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-3699 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-657-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3699 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00057.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3699 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:172 · Vendor Advisory
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.455790 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30662 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32357 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2338 · Note
• http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=846626 · Note