CVE-2008-4939 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Apertium	Apertium

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:apertium:apertium:3.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://bugs.debian.org/496395
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/apertium
http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30896
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44854

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-11-05T14:51:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:31:28.234Z

Reserved: 2008-11-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-4939

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-11-05T15:00:14.883

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:52:53.620

Link: CVE-2008-4939

Redhat

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