CVE-2008-4935

medium

Description

asciiview in aview 1.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/aview#####.pgm temporary file.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44837

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

https://bugs.gentoo.org/235808

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30885

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-14.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/33139

http://bugs.debian.org/496422

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-11-05

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00027