CVE-2008-5394
Publication date 9 December 2008
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.