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CVE-2008-4971

Published: Nov 6, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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Description

mafft-homologs in mafft 6.240 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/_vf#?????, (2) /tmp/_if#?????, (3) /tmp/_pf#?????, (4) /tmp/_af#?????, (5) /tmp/_rid#?????, (6) /tmp/_res#?????, (7) /tmp/_q#?????, and (8) /tmp/_bf#????? temporary files.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235804

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[oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire

mailing-list

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vdb-entry

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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770

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http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

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http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/mafft

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http://bugs.debian.org/496366

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mafft-maffthomologs-symlink(44825)

vdb-entry

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