PT-2008-5218 · Caudium · Caudium

Robert Buchholz · Published 2008-09-02 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3883

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Caudium version 1.4.12

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/roken#####.pike temporary file, which is related to the configvar in Caudium.

Recommendations For Caudium version 1.4.12, consider restricting access to the temporary files in /tmp to prevent symlink attacks until a patch is available.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3883

Affected Products

Caudium

References · 10

• http://secunia.com/advisories/31656 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3883 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44768 · Note
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/caudium · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496404 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3883 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30897 · Note