A vulnerability was found in Stephenjungels plait. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument cut.$ with an unknown input leads to a link following vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-59. The product attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

plaiter in Plait before 1.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) cut.$$, (2) head.$$, (3) awk.$$, and (4) ps.$$ temporary files in /tmp/.

The weakness was released 09/15/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at sourceforge.net. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-4085 since 09/15/2008. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

It is declared as highly functional.

Upgrading to version 0.55.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (44786).

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• Stephenjungels

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• plait

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• 0.50
• 0.51
• 0.52
• 0.53
• 0.54
• 0.55
• 0.55.1
• 0.55.2
• 0.99
• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.1.1
• 1.2.1
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.5
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2

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