PT-2008-6157 · Vdr · Video Disk Recorder

Christian Hoffmann · Published 2008-11-06 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4985

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 Video Disk Recorder (aka vdr-dbg or vdr) version 1.6.0

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

Recommendations For version 1.6.0, consider restricting access to the vdrleaktest function to prevent exploitation until a patch is available. Avoid using the vdrleaktest in sensitive environments to minimize the risk of arbitrary file overwrites.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4985

Affected Products

Video Disk Recorder

References · 11

• 🔥 http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/vdr-dbg · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4985 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4985 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4985 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4985 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44880 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496421 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235827 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note