Detections
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CVE-2008-4971
medium
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.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44825
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235804
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30915
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2