Description
ibackup 2.27 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
References
- [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire mailing-list
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496464
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/ibackup
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496432
- ibackup-unspecified-symlink(45852) vdb-entry
- [debian-devel] 20080811 Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages mailing-list