CVE-2008-4982

EPSS 0.03%

Published: 11/6/2008Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4982

Description

rkhunter in rkhunter 1.3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rkhunter-debug temporary file. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1270.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/rkhunterfrom 0, < 1.3.2-6

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4982