CVE-2008-3931 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3931
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Description: javareconf in R 2.7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44736 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31647 Secunia Advisory: SA31996 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:198 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-13.xml CONFIRM http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/r-base-core-ra http://bugs.debian.org/496418 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/r-base-core http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496363 BID 30878

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