Vulnerability: Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in backup-manager 0.5.8 and earlier

CVE-2005-1856 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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