CVE-2008-5394

Name	CVE-2008-5394
Description	/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-1709-1
Debian Bugs	505271

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
shadow (PTS)	bullseye	1:4.8.1-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	1:4.8.1-1+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm	1:4.13+dfsg1-1+deb12u1	fixed
	trixie	1:4.17.4-2	fixed
	forky, sid	1:4.18.0-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
shadow	source	etch	1:4.0.18.1-7+etch1		DSA-1709-1
shadow	source	(unstable)	1:4.1.1-6			505271