CVE-2008-4973

2008-11-0611:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

i2myspell in myspell 3.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/i2my#####.1 and (2) /tmp/i2my#####.2 temporary files.

References

bugs.debian.org/496392

dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/myspell-tools

uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

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

www.securityfocus.com/bid/30929

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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44830