PT-2008-6126 · Gnu · Emacs-Jabber

Robert Buchholz · Published 2008-11-05 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4952

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 emacs-jabber version 0.7.91

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/*.log temporary file.

Recommendations For version 0.7.91, consider restricting access to temporary files in /tmp to prevent symlink attacks until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4952

Affected Products

Emacs-Jabber

References · 9

• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/emacs-jabber · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4952 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4952 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4952 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4952 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46409 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496428 · Note