Name | CVE-2008-2266 |
Description | uulib/uunconc.c in UUDeview 0.5.20, as used in nzbget before 0.3.0 and possibly other products, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary filename generated by the tempnam function. NOTE: this may be a CVE-2004-2265 regression. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 480972 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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libconvert-uulib-perl (PTS) | jessie, stretch | 1:1.4~dfsg-1 | fixed |
| buster, bullseye | 1:1.5~dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 1:1.8+dfsg-1 | fixed |
pan (PTS) | jessie | 0.139-3 | fixed |
| stretch | 0.141-2 | fixed |
| buster | 0.145-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 0.146-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.154-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 0.161-1 | fixed |
uudeview (PTS) | jessie | 0.5.20-3.4 | fixed |
| stretch | 0.5.20-9 | fixed |
| buster | 0.5.20-11 | fixed |
| bullseye | 0.5.20-12 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.5.20-14 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 0.5.20+20241015-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[etch] - uudeview <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
- libconvert-uulib-perl <not-affected> (Code patched by libconver-uulib upstream to use mkstemp)
- pan <not-affected> (Code patched to use g_mkstemp)
See CVE-2004-2265, where the problem occured as well