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GHSA-4FGP-X352-G928

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-02 00:10 – Updated: 2022-05-02 00:10

Details

ibackup 2.27 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

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CVE-2008-4475 (GCVE-0-2008-4475)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-07 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:17

Summary

ibackup 2.27 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

7 references

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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770	x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/ibackup	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496432	x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg0…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2008-08-12 00:00

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GHSA-4FGP-X352-G928

CVE-2008-4475 (GCVE-0-2008-4475)

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