CVE-2008-4987
N/A
Published: November 6, 2008 at 11:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:58 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXastir
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
xastir 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (a) /tmp/ldconfig.tmp, (b) /tmp/ldconf.tmp, and (c) /tmp/ld.so.conf temporary files, related to the (1) get-maptools.sh and (2) get_shapelib.sh scripts.
Remediation
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References (12)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2x_refsource_CONFIRMx_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59
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