PT-2008-6118 · Cdcontrol · Cdcontrol

Robert Buchholz · Published 2008-11-05 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4944

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 cdcontrol version 1.90

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/v-recorder*-out temporary files.

Recommendations For cdcontrol version 1.90, consider restricting access to the temporary files in /tmp to minimize the risk of exploitation until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4944

Affected Products

Cdcontrol

References · 8

• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/cdcontrol · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4944 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44839 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496438 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30892 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note