CVE-2008-5394

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-5394
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-12-09 00:30:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-11 20:55:00 UTC
Description/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Debian Shadow 4.0.18.1 All All All
Application Debian Shadow 4.0.18.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Multiple Linux Distributions 'login' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
#505071 - login tty mis-determination (see bug#332198) - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
USN-695-1: shadow vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
52200 OSVDB osvdb.org
Debian GNU/Linux (symlink attack in login) Arbitrary File Ownership PoC EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:062 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
#505271 - symlink attack in login leading to arbitrary file ownership - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
#332198 - login: unable to determine TTY name, got /dev/pts/1 - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
/bin/login gives root to group utmp - CXSecurity.com SREASON securityreason.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Shadow: Privilege escalation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-12-18Tomas HogerNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the util-linux packages (providing /bin/login), as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 or 5.
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