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CVE-2008-4476

CVE-2008-4476

EPSS 0.4%
sympa.pl in sympa 5.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sympa_aliases.$$ temporary file. NOTE: wwsympa.fcgi was also reported, but the issue occurred in a dead function, so it is not a vulnerability.
Affected products
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References
http://bugs.debian.org/496405http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sympahttp://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00312.htmlhttps://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770http://secunia.com/advisories/31458https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44499http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txthttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30727