CVE-2008-4984: Freedesktop SCRATCHBOX2

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

scratchbox2 1.99.0.24 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/dpkg.#####.tmp, (b) /tmp/missing_deps.#####, and (c) /tmp/sb2-pkg-chk.$tstamp.##### temporary files, related to the (1) dpkg-checkbuilddeps and (2) sb2-check-pkg-mappings scripts.

Affected products

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