Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4950

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-11-05 14:51:00
Last updated 2024-09-17 01:31:42
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

gccross in dpkg-cross 2.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmp/gccross2.log temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that "There is no sense in this bug - the script ... is called under specific cross-building environments within a chroot.