Bug 246068 (CVE-2008-4993)

Summary:	app-emulation/xen<=3.3.0 symlink attack (CVE-2008-4993)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	xen
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4993
Whiteboard:	B3 [upstream]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	235770

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-08 14:04:57 UTC

CVE-2008-4993 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4993):
  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.

Comment 1 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-08 14:10:31 UTC

I accidently search for qemu, not xen (because of the script's name) and didn't see #235805 first. Sorry!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 235805 ***