Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nvidia-cg-toolkit  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2510-NVIDIACGTOOLKIT-15028650
  • published17 Jan 2026
  • disclosed18 Nov 2008

Introduced: 18 Nov 2008

CVE-2008-5144  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nvidia-cg-toolkit package and not the nvidia-cg-toolkit package as distributed by Ubuntu.

nvidia-cg-toolkit-installer in nvidia-cg-toolkit 2.0.0015 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/nvidia-cg-toolkit-manifest temporary file.