Bug 469883 (CVE-2008-4909) - CVE-2008-4909 crossfire-maps: insecure temporary file use in combine.pl
Summary: CVE-2008-4909 crossfire-maps: insecure temporary file use in combine.pl
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2008-4909
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wart
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-04 16:17 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:27 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-08-22 16:16:41 UTC
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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.
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