CVE-2008-4996

CVSS 5.5 MEDIUMEPSS 0.4%CWE-59

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.5EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

07 Nov 2008Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

init in initramfs-tools 0.92f allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/initramfs.debug temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that "init is [used in] a single-user context; there's no possibility that this is exploitable.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

n/a · n/a

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References

http://bugs.debian.org/496386 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/initramfs-tools https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2