Published: 14/08/2008 Updated: 08/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.3 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 294

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

The MagnatuneBrowser::listDownloadComplete function in magnatunebrowser/magnatunebrowser.cpp in Amarok prior to 1.4.10 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the album_info.xml temporary file.

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Dwayne Litzenberger discovered that Amarok created temporary files in an insecure way Local users could exploit a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program (CVE-2008-3699) ...

CWE-59 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494765 http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/1/4/10 http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=846626 http://secunia.com/advisories/31418 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.455790 http://secunia.com/advisories/31663 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:172 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00097.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00057.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31839 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-08.xml http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-657-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30662 http://secunia.com/advisories/32357 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2338 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44399 https://usn.ubuntu.com/657-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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