CVE-2008-5141

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2008-5141 · Published 18/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5141 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting flamethrower (dann frazier).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.31%, higher than 23.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
flamethrower dann_frazier	`= 0.1.8`	No fix yet

flamethrower in flamethrower 0.1.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/multicast.tar.##### temporary file.

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