cve/2008/CVE-2008-5394.md

### [CVE-2008-5394](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5394)
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### Description

/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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://bugs.debian.org/505071
- http://bugs.debian.org/505271
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4695
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7313

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.