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CVE-2008-5394

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

/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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5394 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the util-linux packages (providing /bin/login), as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 or 5.

Last Modified 2018-05-01T22:29:19+00:00

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