CVE-2008-5144

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: none known
Published: 2008-11-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

nvidia-cg-toolkit-installer in nvidia-cg-toolkit 2.0.0015 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/nvidia-cg-toolkit-manifest temporary file.

Affected products

Federico Di Gregorio Nvidia-Cg-Toolkit: 2.0.0015

References

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32411
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00285.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32411

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