CVE-2008-4942 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in audiolink version 0.05. An attacker can exploit this flaw by using a symlink attack on the temporary files /tmp/audiolink.db.tmp and /tmp/audiolink.tb.tmp, leading to arbitrary file overwrites. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity due to complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, though it requires local access and medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.05CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:audiolink:audiolink:0.05:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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