CVE-2008-4987

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

xastir 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/ldconfig.tmp, (b) /tmp/ldconf.tmp, and (c) /tmp/ld.so.conf temporary files, related to the (1) get-maptools.sh and (2) get_shapelib.sh scripts.

Affected products

Xastir: 1.9.2

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496383
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/xastir
http://secunia.com/advisories/31677
http://secunia.com/advisories/31771
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31030
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460429
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44920
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00199.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00307.html

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