CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-5940
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-11-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
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.
Affected configurations
• tug texlive 2007
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198231 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://osvdb.org/42397 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27737 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27739 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-32.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26507 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3974 www.vupen.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198231 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://osvdb.org/42397 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27737 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27739 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-32.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26507 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3974 www.vupen.com