CVE-2007-0476 (GCVE-0-2007-0476)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-01-25 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 12:19
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The gencert.sh script, when installing OpenLDAP before 2.1.30-r10, 2.2.x before 2.2.28-r7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.30-r2 as an ebuild in Gentoo Linux, does not create temporary directories in /tmp securely during emerge, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
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