CVE-2008-4939
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 5, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 5, 2008
Description
apertium 3.0.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/#####.lex.cc, (b) /tmp/#####.deformat.l, (c) /tmp/#####.reformat.l, (d) /tmp/#####docxorig, (e) /tmp/#####docxsalida.zip, (f) /tmp/#####xlsxembed, (g) /tmp/#####xlsxorig, and (h) /tmp/#####xslxsalida.zip temporary files, related to the (1) apertium-gen-deformat, (2) apertium-gen-reformat, and (3) apertium scripts.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfiremailing-list
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- apertium-multiple-symlink(44854)vdb-entry
- http://bugs.debian.org/496395
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/apertium
- 30896vdb-entry
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
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