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CVE-2008-4982

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2008-11-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

rkhunter in rkhunter 1.3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rkhunter-debug temporary file. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1270.

Affected Platforms

John Horne Rkhunter

Weakness Type

CWE-59

References