PT-2008-5261 · R Development Team · R

Christian Hoffmann · Published 2008-09-04 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3931

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions R version 2.7.2

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files created by the javareconf functionality.

Recommendations For R version 2.7.2, consider restricting access to the javareconf functionality until a patch is available to prevent exploitation.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3931

Affected Products

R

References · 20

• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-3931 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-13.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3931 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3931 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31647 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2008-3931 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-3931 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3931 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3931 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30878 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44736 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235822 · Note
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/r-base-core-ra · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496418 · Note