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CVE-2008-0525

PatchLink Update client for Unix, as used by Novell ZENworks Patch Management Update Agent for Linux/Unix/Mac (LUM) 6.2094 through 6.4102 and other products, a…

Impact

PatchLink Update client for Unix, as used by Novell ZENworks Patch Management Update Agent for Linux/Unix/Mac (LUM) 6.2094 through 6.4102 and other products, allows local users to (1) truncate arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/patchlink.tmp file used by the logtrimmer script, and (2) execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the /tmp/plshutdown file used by the rebootTask script.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Lumension SecurityPatchlink Update
Versions 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
NovellZenworks Patch Management Update Agent
Versions 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

Weakness classification

CWE-59

References