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Status published
Medium
CVE-2008-4085
plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite...
Vulnerability Description
plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44786
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31617
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30928
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154
Affected Vendor
stephenjungels
View all reports →Affected Software
plait
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.50, 0.51, 0.52, 0.53, 0.54, 0.55, 0.55.1, 0.55.2, 0.99, 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.5.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 15th, 2008
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.