CVE-2008-5378: Lehrstuhl Fur Mikrobiologie Arb

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

arb-kill in arb 0.0.20071207.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/arb_pids_*_* temporary file.

Affected products

• Lehrstuhl Fur Mikrobiologie Arb: version 0.0.20071207.1 only

Published 2008-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.