FKIE_CVE-2008-1078
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-02-29 02:44 - Updated: 2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| gentoo | linux | * | |
| rpath | rpath_linux | * |
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