PT-2008-6110 · Mgetty · Mgetty

Christian Hoffmann · Published 2008-11-05 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2008-4936

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 mgetty version 1.1.36

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/faxsp##### temporary file created by faxspool in mgetty.

Recommendations For mgetty version 1.1.36, consider restricting access to the faxspool functionality until a patch is available, or apply a workaround to prevent symlink attacks on temporary files.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4936

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11047-1

Affected Products

Mgetty

References · 20

• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/mgetty-fax · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11047-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4936 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4936 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-08.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4936 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4936 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16743 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33051 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30927 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16744 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44833 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16742 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496403 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note