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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4939
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-4939

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44854

MLIST
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

MISC
  http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

CONFIRM
  http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/apertium
  http://bugs.debian.org/496395

BID
  30896


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