PT-2008-5710 · Sympa · Sympa

Published 2008-10-07 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4476

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: sympa version 5.3.4

Description: The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sympa aliases.$$ temporary file.

Recommendations: For sympa version 5.3.4, 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-2008-4476

Affected Products

Sympa

References · 15

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4476 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31458 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4476 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4476 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4476 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969 · Note
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00312.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4476 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496405 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44499 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30727 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sympa · Note