CVE-2008-1901 (GCVE-0-2008-1901)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-04-21 22:10 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:40
VLAI
Summary
aptlinex before 0.91 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the gambas-apt.lock temporary file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-04-17 00:00
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