Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-4984

Title: Freedesktop Scratchbox2

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-4984.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Nov 06, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.03%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-4984: scratchbox2 1.99.0.24 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/dpkg.#####.tmp, (b) /tmp/missing_deps.#####, and (c) /tmp/sb2-pkg-chk.$tstamp.##### temporary files, related to the (1) dpkg-checkbuilddeps and (2) sb2-check-pkg-mappings scripts.

Impacted Vendors

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/496409 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/scratchbox2 http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30969 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44907 http://bugs.debian.org/496409 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/scratchbox2 http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30969 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44907

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-4984 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 06, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.