CVE-2008-1078

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: yes
Published: 2008-02-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

expn in the am-utils and net-fs packages for Gentoo, rPath Linux, and other distributions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the expn[PID] temporary file. NOTE: this is the same issue as CVE-2003-0308.1.

Affected products

gentoo Linux: all versions
Rpath Linux: all versions

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158
http://secunia.com/advisories/29144
http://secunia.com/advisories/29187
http://secunia.com/advisories/29694
http://secunia.com/advisories/33400
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0088
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-09.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488931/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28044
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2255
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00273.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210158

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