CVE-2008-5394 (GCVE-0-2008-5394)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:49
VLAI?
Summary
/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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