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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5138

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5138

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/18/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

passwdehd in libpam-mount 0.43 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/passwdehd.##### temporary file.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-pam_mount
  • suse-upgrade-pam_mount-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-pam_mount-64bit

References

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