Description
writtercontrol in cdcontrol 1.90 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/v-recorder*-out temporary files.
References
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/cdcontrol
- http://bugs.debian.org/496438
- cdcontrol-writtercontrol-symlink(44839) vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire mailing-list
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
- 30892 vdb-entry