ubuntu-cve-2008-5144
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2008-11-18 16:00
Modified
2026-05-20 14:48
Summary
Details

nvidia-cg-toolkit-installer in nvidia-cg-toolkit 2.0.0015 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/nvidia-cg-toolkit-manifest temporary file.

Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)
negligible
References
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          },
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          },
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          }
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      },
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          },
          {
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            "binary_version": "3.1.0013-5build2"
          }
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      },
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        "name": "nvidia-cg-toolkit",
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "nvidia-cg-toolkit-installer in nvidia-cg-toolkit 2.0.0015 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/nvidia-cg-toolkit-manifest temporary file.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2008-5144",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T14:48:22Z",
  "published": "2008-11-18T16:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-5144"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5144"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "negligible",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2008-5144"
  ]
}



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