CVE-2007-0476

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-01-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The gencert.sh script, when installing OpenLDAP before 2.1.30-r10, 2.2.x before 2.2.28-r7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.30-r2 as an ebuild in Gentoo Linux, does not create temporary directories in /tmp securely during emerge, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

gentoo Linux: 2.1.30-r9, 2.2.28-r7, 2.3.30-r2

References

http://osvdb.org/31617
http://secunia.com/advisories/23881
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-19.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22195
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0305
http://osvdb.org/31617
http://secunia.com/advisories/23881
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-19.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22195
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0305

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