PT-2008-6175 · Lazarus · Lazarus

Christian Hoffmann + 1 · Published 2008-11-10 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-5007

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 Lazarus version 0.9.24

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/lazarus.tgz temporary file or a (2) /tmp/lazarus temporary directory.

Recommendations For Lazarus version 0.9.24, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the create lazarus export tgz.sh script until a patch is available. Avoid using the script to prevent potential symlink attacks on temporary files or directories.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5007

Affected Products

Lazarus

References · 13

• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/lazarus-src · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5007 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5007 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5007 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5007 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235828 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496377 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note
• http://code.google.com/p/bollin/source/browse/lazarus/trunk/debian/patches/07_sh_using_tmp.dpatch?spec=svn3462&r=3462 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30917 · 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/44824 · Note