CVE-2008-5138: Bkleineidam Libpam Mount

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

passwdehd in libpam-mount 0.43 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/passwdehd.##### temporary file.

Affected products

• Bkleineidam Libpam Mount: version 0.43 only

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