Vulnerability in John Horne Rkhunter

CVE-2008-4982

rkhunter in rkhunter 1.3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rkhunter-debug temporary file. NOTE: this is probably a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1270.

EPSS: 0.004 (31.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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