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Title : Debian Security Update Fixes Mon Insecure Temporary File Issue
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2766
CVE ID : CVE-2008-4477
CWE ID : CWE-378
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-10-09

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A vulnerability has been identified in Debian, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in the the "alert.d/test.alert" script in mon when handling temporary files, which could allow malicious users to conduct symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the vulnerable application.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Dmitry E. Oboukhov.

ChangeLog

2008-10-09 : Initial release

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