CVE-2008-1078

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-02-14
Bugzilla:
435420: CVE-2008-1078 am-utils: insecure usage of temporary files

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

expn in the am-utils and net-fs packages for Gentoo, rPath Linux, and other distributions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the expn[PID] temporary file. NOTE: this is the same issue as CVE-2003-0308.1.

Find out more about CVE-2008-1078 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk.We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red HatEnterprise Linux.

For more information please see the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435420

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