CVE-2008-4638

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2008-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

qioadmin in the Quick I/O for Database feature in Symantec Veritas File System (VxFS) on HP-UX, and before 5.0 MP3 on Solaris, Linux, and AIX, allows local users to read arbitrary files by causing qioadmin to write a file's content to standard error in an error message.

Affected products

Symantec Veritas File System: 5.0-mp2, unknown-unknown

References

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/310872.htm
http://www.security-objectives.com/advisories/SECOBJSADV-2008-05.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497675/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31679
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.10.20.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2875
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46009
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/310872.htm
http://www.security-objectives.com/advisories/SECOBJSADV-2008-05.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497675/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31679
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.10.20.html

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