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CVE-2008-4970
- 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: 2008-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-59
Description
runiozone in lustre 1.6.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/iozone.log temporary file.
Affected products
- Lustre-Tests: 1.6.5, 1.6.5.1
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/496371
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/lustre-tests
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30911
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44819
- http://bugs.debian.org/496371
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/lustre-tests
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30911
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44819
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