DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4108

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Source

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4108

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4108.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4108

Upstream

CVE-2008-4108

Published

2008-09-18T17:59:33.093Z

Modified

2025-11-20T10:06:52.780116Z

Summary

[none]

Details

Tools/faqwiz/move-faqwiz.sh (aka the generic FAQ wizard moving tool) in Python 2.4.5 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a tmp$RANDOM.tmp temporary file. NOTE: there may not be common usage scenarios in which tmp$RANDOM.tmp is located in an untrusted directory.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4108

Affected packages

Debian:11 / python-defaults

Package

Name: python-defaults
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/python-defaults?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.7.18-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4108.json"