CVE-2008-0525

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

PatchLink Update client for Unix, as used by Novell ZENworks Patch Management Update Agent for Linux/Unix/Mac (LUM) 6.2094 through 6.4102 and other products, allows local users to (1) truncate arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/patchlink.tmp file used by the logtrimmer script, and (2) execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the /tmp/plshutdown file used by the rebootTask script.

Affected products

Lumension Security Patchlink Update: 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Novell Zenworks Patch Management Update Agent: 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28657
http://secunia.com/advisories/28665
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3599
http://support.lumension.com/scripts/rightnow.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=527
http://support.lumension.com/scripts/rightnow.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=528
http://support.lumension.com/scripts/rightnow.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=530
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487103/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27458
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019272
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0426
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39956
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39958

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