CVE-2008-4939 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496395 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/apertium http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30896 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44854