Bug 469883 (CVE-2008-4909)

Summary:	CVE-2008-4909 crossfire-maps: insecure temporary file use in combine.pl
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Wart <wart>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	security-response-team, wart
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4909
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-11-04 16:17:51 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-4909 to the following vulnerability:

maps/Info/combine.pl in CrossFire crossfire-maps 1.11.0 allows local
users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary
file.

References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496358
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30893
http://secunia.com/advisories/32487

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-12-24 00:21:05 UTC

The Debian bug report indicates that maps/Info/combine.pl is not used by default and is provided solely as a utility for possible use.  However, this bug report is two years old, so I'm filing a Fedora tracker as it has never been addressed.