CVE-2008-1901: Debian Aptlinex

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

aptlinex before 0.91 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the gambas-apt.lock temporary file.

Affected products

• Debian Aptlinex: version 0.6-1 only; version 0.7-1 only; version 0.8-1 only; version 0.8-2 only; version 0.9-1 only

Published 2008-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.