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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4983
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-4983

Description:
scilab-bin 4.1.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/SciLink#####1, (b) /tmp/SciLink#####2, (c) /tmp/SciLink#####3, (d) /tmp/*.#####, (e) /tmp/*.#####.res, (f) /tmp/*.#####.err, and (g) /tmp/*.#####.diff temporary files, related to the (1) scilink, (2) scidoc, and (3) scidem scripts.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44883

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA33630

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

MISC
  http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-14.xml

CONFIRM
  http://bugs.debian.org/496414
  http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/scilab-bin

BID
  30968


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