CVE-2008-4985

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-4985 · Published 06/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-4985 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting vdr (cadsoft).
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
vdr cadsoft	`= 1.6.0`	No fix yet

Description

vdrleaktest in Video Disk Recorder (aka vdr-dbg or vdr) 1.6.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/memleaktest.log temporary file.

References

bugs.debian.org/496421
dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/vdr-dbg · Exploit
uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Exploit
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44880

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