PT-2008-6286 · Unknown · Flamethrower

Dmitry E. Oboukhov · Published 2008-11-18 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-5141

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 flamethrower version 0.1.8

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

Recommendations For version 0.1.8, consider restricting access to the temporary file /tmp/multicast.tar to prevent a symlink attack until a patch is available.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5141

DSA-1676-1

Affected Products

Flamethrower

References · 11

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5141 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5141 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5141 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5141 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1676 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32961 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32386 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506350 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46717 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32891 · Note
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html · Note