CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4191
6.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
extract-table.pl in Emacspeak 26 and 28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the extract-table.csv temporary file.
Affected configurations
• emacspeak inc emacspeak 26.0
• emacspeak inc emacspeak 28.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496431 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/emacspeak dev.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31880 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32071 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31241 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460435 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45237 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00010.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00012.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496431 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/emacspeak dev.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31880 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32071 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31241 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460435 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45237 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00010.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00012.html www.redhat.com