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Published: 06/04/1998 Updated: 05/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 365

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Slackware Linux 3.4 pkgtool allows local malicious user to read and write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the reply file.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/82/info pkgtool creates the file /tmp/reply insecurely and follows symbolic links An attacker can create a symbolic link from /tmp/reply to any file and wait for root to run the program This will clober the target file The file created has permissions -rw-rw-rw- $ cp /etc/passwd /tmp/passwd $ ln -s /tm ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19074/

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