Description
/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://osvdb.org/52200 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/505271 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32552 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/332198 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47037 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-24.xml ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:062 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498769/100/0/threaded ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7313 ↗
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4695 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/505071 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-695-1 ↗