CVE-2008-4946

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-4946 · Published 05/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-4946 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting convirt (convirture).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.41%, higher than 35.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
convirt convirture	`= 0.8.2`	No fix yet

Description

convirt 0.8.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/set_output temporary file, related to the (1) _template_/provision.sh, (2) Linux_CD_Install/provision.sh, (3) Fedora_PV_Install/provision.sh, (4) CentOS_PV_Install/provision.sh, (5) common/provision.sh, (6) example/provision.sh, and (7) Windows_CD_Install/provision.sh scripts in image_store/.

References

bugs.debian.org/496419
dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/convirt · Exploit
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi

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