4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that Lookup, a search interface to
electronic dictionaries on emacsen, creates a temporary file in an
insecure fashion when the ndeb-binary feature is used, which allows a
local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-3sarge1.
For the testing distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your lookup-el package.