CVE-2008-4979

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4979
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2008-4979.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2008-4979
Downstream
Published
2008-11-06T15:55:52Z
Modified
2025-08-09T19:01:29Z
Summary
[none]
Details

getipacctg in rancid 2.3.2~a8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/ipacct.#####.prefixes, (2) /tmp/ipacct.#####.sorted, (3) /tmp/ipacct.#####.pl, and (4) /tmp/ipacct.##### temporary files.

References

Affected packages