CVE-2008-3699

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 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: 2008-08-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The MagnatuneBrowser::listDownloadComplete function in magnatunebrowser/magnatunebrowser.cpp in Amarok before 1.4.10 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the album_info.xml temporary file.

Affected products

Amarok: 1.4.9.1

References

http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/1/4/10
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494765
http://secunia.com/advisories/31418
http://secunia.com/advisories/31663
http://secunia.com/advisories/31839
http://secunia.com/advisories/32357
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-08.xml
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.455790
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=846626
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:172
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30662
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-657-1

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