cve/2008/CVE-2008-0525.md

CVE-2008-0525

Description

PatchLink Update client for Unix, as used by Novell ZENworks Patch Management Update Agent for Linux/Unix/Mac (LUM) 6.2094 through 6.4102 and other products, allows local users to (1) truncate arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/patchlink.tmp file used by the logtrimmer script, and (2) execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the /tmp/plshutdown file used by the rebootTask script.

POC

Reference

No PoCs from references.

Github

• https://github.com/lucassbeiler/linux_hardening_arsenal