CVE-2008-4984Not scoredCWE-59

CVE-2008-4984: Freedesktop Scratchbox2 vulnerability

Freedesktop · Scratchbox2

Affected: Freedesktop Scratchbox2 · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

0.3%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

25th percentile

050100

Higher than 25% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

scratchbox2 1.99.0.24 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/dpkg.#####.tmp, (b) /tmp/missing_deps.#####, and (c) /tmp/sb2-pkg-chk.$tstamp.##### temporary files, related to the (1) dpkg-checkbuilddeps and (2) sb2-check-pkg-mappings scripts.

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Exploitation: Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Link Following · File and Path Handling
Vendor: Freedesktop
Published: November 2008
Band: Unlikely (under 1%), November 2008

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