PT-2008-6495 · Screenie · Screenie

Dmitry E. Oboukhov · Published 2008-12-08 · Updated 2009-09-11 · CVE-2008-5371

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 screenie version 1.30.0

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

Recommendations For version 1.30.0, consider restricting access to the temporary file /tmp/.screenie to prevent symlink attacks until a patch is available.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5371

Affected Products

Screenie

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5371 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5371 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5371 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5371 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00283.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32737 · Note