Vulnerability in Checkinstall

CVE-2008-2958

Race condition in (1) checkinstall 1.6.1 and (2) installwatch allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and have other impacts via symlink and possibly other attacks on temporary working directories.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.003 (20.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References