Link Following Affecting emacspeak package, versions <28.0-2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-EMACSPEAK-264414
  • published24 Sept 2008
  • disclosed24 Sept 2008

Introduced: 24 Sep 2008

CVE-2008-4191  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 emacspeak to version 28.0-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacspeak package and not the emacspeak package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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