CVE-2008-5143: Mohammed Sameer Multi-Gnome-Terminal

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

mgt-helper in multi-gnome-terminal 1.6.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) /tmp/*.debug or (2) /tmp/*.env temporary file.

Affected products

• Mohammed Sameer Multi-Gnome-Terminal: version 1.6.2 only

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