CVE-2008-4993

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-08-24
CWE:
CWE-377
Bugzilla:
470795: CVE-2008-4993 xen: insecure temporary file use in qemu-dm.debug

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

qemu-dm.debug in Xen 3.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/args temporary file.

Find out more about CVE-2008-4993 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization 5 (xen) RHSA-2009:0003 2009-01-07
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (xen) RHSA-2009:0003 2009-01-07

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