PT-2008-6296 · Enthought · Mayavi

Dmitry E. Oboukhov · Published 2008-11-18 · Updated 2008-11-18 · CVE-2008-5151

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 mayavi version 1.5

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

Recommendations For mayavi version 1.5, consider restricting access to the temporary file /tmp/err.log to prevent symlink attacks until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5151

Affected Products

Mayavi

References · 3

• 🔥 http://uvw.ru/report.sid.txt · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5151 · Security Note
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00347.html · Note