PT-2008-6289 · Nvidia+1 · Nvidia-Cg-Toolkit+1

Published 2008-11-18 · Updated 2009-02-17 · CVE-2008-5144

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 nvidia-cg-toolkit version 2.0.0015

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/nvidia-cg-toolkit-manifest temporary file. This is a result of a flaw in the nvidia-cg-toolkit-installer.

Recommendations For version 2.0.0015, consider restricting access to the /tmp/nvidia-cg-toolkit-manifest file to prevent symlink attacks until a patch is available.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5144

Affected Products

Debian

Nvidia-Cg-Toolkit

References · 12

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5144 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5144 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5144 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5144 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5144 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-5144 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5144 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/nvidia-cg-toolkit · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2008-5144 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32411 · Note
• https://packages.debian.org/src:nvidia-cg-toolkit · Note
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html · Note