Link Following Affecting apertium package, versions <3.0.7+1-1.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-APERTIUM-267748
  • published5 Nov 2008
  • disclosed5 Nov 2008

Introduced: 5 Nov 2008

CVE-2008-4939  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable apertium to version 3.0.7+1-1.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

apertium 3.0.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/#####.lex.cc, (b) /tmp/#####.deformat.l, (c) /tmp/#####.reformat.l, (d) /tmp/#####docxorig, (e) /tmp/#####docxsalida.zip, (f) /tmp/#####xlsxembed, (g) /tmp/#####xlsxorig, and (h) /tmp/#####xslxsalida.zip temporary files, related to the (1) apertium-gen-deformat, (2) apertium-gen-reformat, and (3) apertium scripts.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1