CVE-2008-4997

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 7, 2008
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Nov 7, 2008

Description

dfxml-invoice in datafreedom-perl 0.1.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/zenity temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, stating that the vector is solely "an EXAMPLE used in the manpage.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfiremailing-list
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/datafreedom-perl
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://bugs.debian.org/496429

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