CVE-2008-1078

Published: 29 February 2008

expn in the am-utils and net-fs packages for Gentoo, rPath Linux, and other distributions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the expn[PID] temporary file. NOTE: this is the same issue as CVE-2003-0308.1.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
am-utils Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Not vulnerable
	edgy	Not vulnerable
	feisty	Not vulnerable
	gutsy	Not vulnerable
	upstream	Not vulnerable

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1078
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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