National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1569
Original release date:03/31/2008
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 28480
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214403
External Source: XF
Name: policydweight-sockets-symlink(41565)
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.policyd-weight.org/
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 43888
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1531
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29553
Type: Advisory
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200804-11
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29738
