debian · CVE-2008-4936

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CVE-2008-4936 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (mgetty), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

faxspool in mgetty 1.1.36 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/faxsp.##### temporary file.