CVE-2008-5394
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 0.9%
exploitation probability
0.9%top 41% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
/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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
cve_reference✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7313⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://bugs.debian.org/332198http://bugs.debian.org/505071http://bugs.debian.org/505271http://osvdb.org/52200http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-24.xmlhttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/4695https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47037https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7313http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:062http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498769/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32552http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-695-1