CVE-2008-4985

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

vdrleaktest in Video Disk Recorder (aka vdr-dbg or vdr) 1.6.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/memleaktest.log temporary file.

Affected products

Cadsoft Vdr: 1.6.0

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496421
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/vdr-dbg
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
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=235827
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44880
http://bugs.debian.org/496421
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/vdr-dbg
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

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