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GHSA-5848-87GF-WVQV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 02:40 – Updated: 2022-05-14 02:40

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/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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CVE-2008-5394 (GCVE-0-2008-5394)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:49

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2286 records in the last 180 days details

References

12 references

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http://bugs.debian.org/505271	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32552	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://bugs.debian.org/332198	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-24.xml	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498769/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7313	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4695	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://bugs.debian.org/505071	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-695-1	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU

Date Public

2008-11-30 00:00

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