CVE-2008-5007

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-5007 · Published 10/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5007 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting lazarus (lazarus).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.40%, higher than 35.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
lazarus lazarus	`= 0.9.24`	No fix yet

Description

create_lazarus_export_tgz.sh in lazarus 0.9.24 allows local users to overwrite or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/lazarus.tgz temporary file or a (2) /tmp/lazarus temporary directory.

References

bugs.debian.org/496377
code.google.com/p/bollin/source/browse/lazarus/trunk/debian/patches/07_sh_using_tmp.dpatch
dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/lazarus-src · Exploit
uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
securityfocus.com/bid/30917
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44824

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