CVE-2008-4975

Impact

mkmailpost in newsgate 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/mmp##### temporary file.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugs.debian.org/496437
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/newsgate
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30932
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• http://bugs.debian.org/496437
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/newsgate
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30932
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770