PT-2008-6297 · Mh-Book+1 · Mh-Book+1

Dmitry E. Oboukhov · Published 2008-11-18 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-5152

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 mh-book version 200605

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files /tmp/inmail#####.log or /tmp/inmail#####.stdin.

Recommendations For mh-book version 200605, consider restricting access to the temporary files /tmp/inmail#####.log and /tmp/inmail#####.stdin to prevent a symlink attack until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5152

Affected Products

Debian

Mh-Book

References · 14

• 🔥 http://uvw.ru/report.sid.txt · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mh-book · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5152 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-5152 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5152 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5152 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5152 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5152 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2008-5152 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5152 · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.debian.org/src:mh-book · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46709 · Note
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00347.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32399 · Note