CVE-2008-4942

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-4942 · Published 05/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-4942 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting audiolink (audiolink).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.39%, higher than 33.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
audiolink audiolink	`= 0.05`	No fix yet

Description

audiolink in audiolink 0.05 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/audiolink.db.tmp and (2) /tmp/audiolink.tb.tmp temporary files.

References

bugs.debian.org/496433
dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/audiolink · Exploit
uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
securityfocus.com/bid/30886
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44757

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