CVE-2008-4984 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in freedesktop scratchbox2 version 1.99.0.24. Attackers can exploit this flaw by using a symlink attack on temporary files created by the dpkg-checkbuilddeps and sb2-check-pkg-mappings scripts, leading to arbitrary file overwrites. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, but requires local access and medium attack complexity. There is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.99.0.24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:scratchbox2:1.99.0.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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