Detections
Analytics
CVE-2008-4939
medium
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.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44854
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30896
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2