debian · CVE-2008-5394

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Priority: not yet assigned 公開: Updated: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:01:09 GMT

参照: Official debian advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE 詳細

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Tracker summary

CVE-2008-5394 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (shadow), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.

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