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CVE-2008-5007

Date: November 10, 2008

create_lazarus_export_tgz.sh in lazarus 0.9.24 allows local users to overwrite or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/lazarus.tgz temporary file or a (2) /tmp/lazarus temporary directory.

Severity Score

7.4

Related Resources (12)

Url: http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30917

Url: http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/lazarus-src

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/496377

Url: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

Url: http://code.google.com/p/bollin/source/browse/lazarus/trunk/debian/patches/07_sh_using_tmp.dpatch?spec=svn3462&r=3462

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5007

Url: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235828

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-5007

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44824

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-5007

Severity Score

7.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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