CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4971
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
mafft-homologs in mafft 6.240 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/_vf#?????, (2) /tmp/_if#?????, (3) /tmp/_pf#?????, (4) /tmp/_af#?????, (5) /tmp/_rid#?????, (6) /tmp/_res#?????, (7) /tmp/_q#?????, and (8) /tmp/_bf#????? temporary files.
Affected configurations
• align.bmr.kyushu-u.ac mafft 6.240
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/496366 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/mafft Exploit
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt uvw.ru
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30915 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235804 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44825 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/496366 bugs.debian.org
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/mafft Exploit
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt uvw.ru
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30915 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235804 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44825 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com