PT-2008-6150 · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · Radiance

Robert Buchholz · Published 2008-11-06 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4978

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 radiance version 3R9+20080530

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on several temporary files, including /tmp/opt.fmt, /tmp/out#####.fmt, /tmp/tf#####.dat, /tmp/gsf#####, /tmp/sc#####.sh, /tmp/il#####.pic, /tmp/tl#####.pic, /tmp/ds#####.pic, /tmp/tfa#####, and /tmp/sed#####, related to the optics2rad, pdelta, dayfact, and raddepend scripts.

Recommendations For radiance version 3R9+20080530, consider restricting access to the temporary files in /tmp to prevent symlink attacks, and avoid using the vulnerable scripts until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the optics2rad, pdelta, dayfact, and raddepend scripts until a fix is provided.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4978

Affected Products

Radiance

References · 8

• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/radiance · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4978 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44846 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496433 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30953 · Note