CVE-2008-4108

Tools/faqwiz/move-faqwiz.sh (aka the generic FAQ wizard moving tool) in Python 2.4.5 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a tmp$RANDOM.tmp temporary file. NOTE: there may not be common usage scenarios in which tmp$RANDOM.tmp is located in an untrusted directory.

Date published : 2008-09-18

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31184

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498899