CVE-2008-5007

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: 2008-11-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

create_lazarus_export_tgz.sh in lazarus 0.9.24 allows local users to overwrite or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/lazarus.tgz temporary file or a (2) /tmp/lazarus temporary directory.

Affected products

Lazarus: 0.9.24

References

http://bugs.debian.org/496377
http://code.google.com/p/bollin/source/browse/lazarus/trunk/debian/patches/07_sh_using_tmp.dpatch?spec=svn3462&r=3462
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/lazarus-src
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30917
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235828
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44824
http://bugs.debian.org/496377
http://code.google.com/p/bollin/source/browse/lazarus/trunk/debian/patches/07_sh_using_tmp.dpatch?spec=svn3462&r=3462
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/lazarus-src

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