CVE-2008-1569

Description

policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 and earlier allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files that are used when creating a socket.

Affected Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-59

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/29553
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29738
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1531
• http://www.osvdb.org/43888
• http://www.policyd-weight.org/