PT-2007-5642 · Po4A · Po4A

Published 2007-08-21 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2007-4462

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.3

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions po4a versions prior to 0.32

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the gettextization.failed.po temporary file. This is related to the lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm file in po4a.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.32, update to version 0.32 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the temporary files created by po4a to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-4462

Affected Products

Po4A

References · 11

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4462 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4462 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-4462 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4462 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-04.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26810 · Note
• http://alioth.debian.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=1019 · Note
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189440 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253541 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26492 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/25402 · Note