CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5299
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-01
- 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
chm2pdf 0.9 allows user-assisted local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .chm files in the (1) /tmp/chm2pdf/work or (2) /tmp/chm2pdf/orig temporary directories.
Affected configurations
• karakas-online chm2pdf 0.9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501959 bugs.debian.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053501.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053510.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32257 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43109 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31735 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0236 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45813 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501959 bugs.debian.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053501.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053510.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32257 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43109 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31735 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0236 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45813 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com