CVE-2008-5394

CVE-2008-5394 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.

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