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CVE-2008-4939
Published: Nov 5, 2008
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire
mailing-list
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
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apertium-multiple-symlink(44854)
vdb-entry
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http://bugs.debian.org/496395
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/apertium
x_refsource_CONFIRM
30896
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
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