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CVE-2008-4958

• 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

gdrae in gdrae 0.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gdrae/palabra temporary file.

Affected products

• Alejandro Garrido Mota Gdrae: 0.1

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/496378
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496415
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/gdrae
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30888
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44838
• http://bugs.debian.org/496378
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496415
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/gdrae
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

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