CVE-2008-4978 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Radiance 3R9+20080530. It allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on various temporary files created by scripts like optics2rad and pdelta. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring local access and medium attack complexity, but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:radiance:radiance:3:r9:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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