PT-2008-6116 · Audiolink · Audiolink

Robert Buchholz · Published 2008-11-05 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4942

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 audiolink version 0.05

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/audiolink.db.tmp and /tmp/audiolink.tb.tmp temporary files.

Recommendations For audiolink version 0.05, consider restricting access to the temporary files /tmp/audiolink.db.tmp and /tmp/audiolink.tb.tmp to prevent a symlink attack until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4942

Affected Products

Audiolink

References · 11

• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/audiolink · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4942 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4942 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4942 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4942 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.debian.org/496433 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30886 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44757 · Note