CVE-2008-2266 (GCVE-0-2008-2266)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-05-16 06:54 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:58
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
uulib/uunconc.c in UUDeview 0.5.20, as used in nzbget before 0.3.0 and possibly other products, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary filename generated by the tempnam function. NOTE: this may be a CVE-2004-2265 regression.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-11.xml | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480972 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/31420 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/30171 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/0… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29211 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/30/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2008-05-12 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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