CVE-2008-4973 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/496392 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/myspell-tools http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30929 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44830