CVE-2008-4985
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4985
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2008-4985.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2008-4985
- Downstream
- Published
- 2008-11-06T15:55:52Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-10T03:40:17.853040Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
vdrleaktest in Video Disk Recorder (aka vdr-dbg or vdr) 1.6.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/memleaktest.log temporary file.
- References
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- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/vdr-dbg
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
- http://bugs.debian.org/496421
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235827
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44880