A vulnerability has been found in Freedesktop scratchbox2 1.99.0.24 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Mapping. The manipulation of the argument tmp/sb2-pkg-chk.$tstamp.#### with an unknown input leads to a link following vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

scratchbox2 1.99.0.24 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/dpkg.#####.tmp, (b) /tmp/missing_deps.#####, and (c) /tmp/sb2-pkg-chk.$tstamp.##### temporary files, related to the (1) dpkg-checkbuilddeps and (2) sb2-check-pkg-mappings scripts.

The weakness was presented 11/06/2008 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at bugs.gentoo.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-4984 since 11/06/2008. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

It is declared as highly functional.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (44907). See 44966, 44935, 44934 and 44933 for similar entries.

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