/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2008-12-09T00:00:00
Updated: 2018-10-11T19:57:01
Reserved: 2008-12-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2008-5394
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2008-12-09T00:30:00.517
Modified: 2018-10-11T20:55:13.640
Link: CVE-2008-5394
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