CVE-2007-5940 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5940
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Description: feynmf.pl in feynmf 1.08, as used in TeXLive 2007, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the feynmf$$.pl temporary file.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27737 Secunia Advisory: SA27739 OSVDB 42397 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-32.xml CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198231 BID 26507

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