PT-2008-5489 · Gnu · Emacspeak

Published 2008-09-24 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4191

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Emacspeak versions 26 through 28

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the extract-table.csv temporary file.

Recommendations For Emacspeak versions 26 through 28, consider restricting access to the extract-table.pl script until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the extract-table.pl script in Emacspeak versions 26 through 28 to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4191

Affected Products

Emacspeak

References · 15

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4191 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00012.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4191 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4191 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31880 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4191 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00010.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32071 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31241 · Note
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/emacspeak · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460435 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496431 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45237 · Note