{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:26Z",
  "published": "2008-10-07T21:11:38Z",
  "id": "CVE-2008-4476",
  "details": "sympa.pl in sympa 5.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/sympa_aliases.$$ temporary file.  NOTE: wwsympa.fcgi was also reported, but the issue occurred in a dead function, so it is not a vulnerability.",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31458"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://bugs.debian.org/496405"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494969"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/sympa"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00312.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30727"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44499"
    }
  ]
}