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Debian Os-proberos-prober in os-prober 1.17 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on …

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DISPUTED os-prober in os-prober 1.17 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/mounted-map or (2) /tmp/raided-map temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating "the insecure code path should only ever run inside a d-i environment, which has no non-root users."

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CVE-2008-5135

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