CVE-2008-4085

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.

Affected products

Stephenjungels Plait: through 1.5.2; 0.50, 0.51, 0.52, 0.53, 0.54, 0.55 (+13)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait
http://secunia.com/advisories/31617
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30928
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44786
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496381
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/plait
http://secunia.com/advisories/31617
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=147849&release_id=623154

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