CVE-2008-0525: Lumension Security Patchlink Update

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PatchLink Update client for Unix, as used by Novell ZENworks Patch Management Update Agent for Linux/Unix/Mac (LUM) 6.2094 through 6.4102 and other products, allows local users to (1) truncate arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/patchlink.tmp file used by the logtrimmer script, and (2) execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the /tmp/plshutdown file used by the rebootTask script.

Affected products

• Lumension Security Patchlink Update: version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only
• Novell Zenworks Patch Management Update Agent: version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only

Published 2008-01-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.