CVE-2008-4951

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: yes
Published: 2008-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

dtc 0.29.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/awstats.log, (b) /tmp/spam.log.#####, and (c) /tmp/spam_err.log temporary files, related to the (1) accesslog.php and (2) sa-wrapper scripts.

Affected products

Gplhost Dtc-Common: 0.29.6

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496362
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/dtc-common
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235812
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46411
http://bugs.debian.org/496362
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/dtc-common
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235812
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46411

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