Debian/checkinstall: unknown

Race condition in (1) checkinstall 1.6.1 and (2) installwatch allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and have other impacts via symlink and possibly other attacks on temporary working directo

Action: Upgrade checkinstall to 1.6.1-7 or later.

Affected

Fixed versions

Sources

• osv: DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2958#Debian:13/checkinstall
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2958

published 2008-07-01T22:41:00Z · modified 2026-10-23T17:47:32.089819055Z · JSON