CVE-2008-4979

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

getipacctg in rancid 2.3.2~a8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/ipacct.#####.prefixes, (2) /tmp/ipacct.#####.sorted, (3) /tmp/ipacct.#####.pl, and (4) /tmp/ipacct.##### temporary files.

Affected products

Shrubbery Rancid: 2.3.2~a8

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496426
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/rancid-util
http://secunia.com/advisories/32588
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30954
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://bugs.debian.org/496426
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/rancid-util
http://secunia.com/advisories/32588
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

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