{"action":"Upgrade shadow to 1:4.1.1-6 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"1:4.1.1-6","introduced":"0"}],"component":"shadow","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:14","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["1:4.1.1-6"],"id":"tcs_01M5N95RXVG5MM07QHERXRTQ9B","modified_at":"2026-10-23T17:47:35.118954568Z","published_at":"2008-12-09T00:30:00.517Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5394","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5394"],"severity":{"label":"unknown"},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5394#Debian:14/shadow","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5394"}],"summary":"/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 re"}