ubuntu · CVE-2007-3852

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Tracker summary

CVE-2007-3852 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (sysstat), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The init script (sysstat.in) in sysstat 5.1.2 up to 7.1.6 creates /tmp/sysstat.run insecurely, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code.