CVE-2005-1856

First published: Mon Aug 29 2005(Updated: )

The CD-burning feature in backup-manager 0.5.8 and earlier uses a fixed filename in a world-writable directory for logging, which allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

Credit: security@debian.org

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