CVE-2008-5135: Debian OS-Prober

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

os-prober in os-prober 1.17 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/mounted-map or (2) /tmp/raided-map temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating "the insecure code path should only ever run inside a d-i environment, which has no non-root users.

Affected products

• Debian OS-Prober: version 1.17 only

Published 2008-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.