CVE-2008-1078

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-1078
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-02-29 02:44:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:01:00 UTC
Descriptionexpn in the am-utils and net-fs packages for Gentoo, rPath Linux, and other distributions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the expn[PID] temporary file. NOTE: this is the same issue as CVE-2003-0308.1.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Gentoo Linux All All All All
Operating System Gentoo Linux All All All All
Operating System Rpath Rpath Linux All All All All
Operating System Rpath Rpath Linux All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo update for am-utils - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
rPath update for am-utils - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo Bug 210158 - net-fs/am-utils <6.1.5 insecure creation of temporary file (CVE-2008-1078) CONFIRM bugs.gentoo.org Exploit
Berkeley Automounter Suite of Utilities "expn" Insecure Temporary File - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088 - rPath Wiki CONFIRM wiki.rpath.com
am-utils 'expn' Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
am-utils: Insecure temporary file creation — Gentoo Linux Documentation GENTOO www.gentoo.org
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2255 CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: am-utils-6.1.5-8.1.fc9 FEDORA www.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-03-04Joshua BressersThe risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk.We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red HatEnterprise Linux. For more information please see the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435420
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