Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | dialog symlink attack |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-008 | First vendor Publication | 2000-12-25 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2000-12-25 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 2.1 | Attack Range | Local |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 3.9 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Matt Kraai reported that he found a problem in the way dialog creates lock-files: it did not create them safely which made it susceptible to a symlink attack. This has been fixed in version 0.9a-20000118-3bis. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2000/dsa-008 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 008-1 (dialog) File : nvt/deb_008_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 1701 | dialog /tmp File Race Condition dialog allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack to gain privileges on the system. The dialog program creates lock-files in the /tmp directory insecurely. A local attacker could leverage this vulnerability to create a symbolic link in /tmp and overwrite or corrupt sensitive files owned by another user. |
