oss-security - Re: CVE id request: mon

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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:05:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE id request: mon

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Name: CVE-2008-4477
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4477
Reference: MLIST:[debian-devel] 20080812 Re: Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages
Reference: URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00312.html
Reference: CONFIRM:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496398

alert.d/test.alert in mon 0.99.2 allows local users to overwrite
arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the test.alert.log temporary
file.

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