EDB-7313

functional

Debian - Symlink In Login Arbitrary File Ownership

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor Paul Szabopublished 2008-12-01catalog exploit_db
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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2008-5394UShigh7.2Exploit
/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on…
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