CVE-2008-5141: Dann Frazier Flamethrower

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

flamethrower in flamethrower 0.1.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/multicast.tar.##### temporary file.

Affected products

• Dann Frazier Flamethrower: version 0.1.8 only

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