CVE-2008-4982

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

rkhunter in rkhunter 1.3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rkhunter-debug temporary file. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1270.

Affected products

John Horne Rkhunter: 1.3.2

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496375
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/rkhunter
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=235798
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46511
http://bugs.debian.org/496375
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/rkhunter
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=235798
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46511

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