CVE-2008-1570

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-1570 · Published 31/03/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-1570 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting policyd-weight (policyd-weight).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.22%, higher than 13.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
policyd-weight policyd-weight	`= 0.1.14_beta-14`	No fix yet

Description

Race condition in the create_lockpath function in policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files by creating the LOCKPATH directory, then modifying it after the symbolic link check occurs. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-1569.

References

secunia.com/advisories/29738
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-11.xml
osvdb.org/43888
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41570

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