CVE-2008-4944

Description

writtercontrol in cdcontrol 1.90 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/v-recorder*-out temporary files.

Affected Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-59

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/496438
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/cdcontrol
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30892
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770