CVE-2008-4979: Shrubbery Rancid

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

getipacctg in rancid 2.3.2~a8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/ipacct.#####.prefixes, (2) /tmp/ipacct.#####.sorted, (3) /tmp/ipacct.#####.pl, and (4) /tmp/ipacct.##### temporary files.

Affected products

• Shrubbery Rancid: version 2.3.2~a8 only

Published 2008-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.