| Name | CVE-2008-5144 |
| Description | nvidia-cg-toolkit-installer in nvidia-cg-toolkit 2.0.0015 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/nvidia-cg-toolkit-manifest temporary file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| nvidia-cg-toolkit (PTS) | trixie/non-free, bullseye/non-free, sid/non-free, bookworm/non-free | 3.1.0013-5 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| nvidia-cg-toolkit | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
-installer can be run from postinst but unsafe code is only executed when a special option is used when manually running the installer