Candidate: CVE-2008-4946 PublicDate: 2008-11-05 15:00:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4946 Description: convirt 0.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/set_output temporary file, related to the (1) _template_/provision.sh, (2) Linux_CD_Install/provision.sh, (3) Fedora_PV_Install/provision.sh, (4) CentOS_PV_Install/provision.sh, (5) common/provision.sh, (6) example/provision.sh, and (7) Windows_CD_Install/provision.sh scripts in image_store/. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: Bugs: Priority: low Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Patches_convirt: upstream_convirt: released (0.9.6-1) dapper_convirt: DNE gutsy_convirt: DNE hardy_convirt: DNE intrepid_convirt: needed (reached end-of-life) jaunty_convirt: ignored (reached end-of-life) karmic_convirt: not-affected (0.9.6-2) lucid_convirt: not-affected maverick_convirt: not-affected devel_convirt: not-affected