PT-2008-6143 · Mafft · Mafft

Christian Hoffmann · Published 2008-11-06 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4971

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 mafft version 6.240

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on several temporary files in the /tmp directory, including (1) /tmp/ vf#?????, (2) /tmp/ if#?????, (3) /tmp/ pf#?????, (4) /tmp/ af#?????, (5) /tmp/ rid#?????, (6) /tmp/ res#?????, (7) /tmp/ q#?????, and (8) /tmp/ bf#?????.

Recommendations For version 6.240, consider restricting access to the temporary files in the /tmp directory to minimize the risk of exploitation. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the mafft-homologs feature in mafft until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4971

Affected Products

Mafft

References · 12

• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/mafft · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4971 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4971 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4971 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4971 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30915 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44825 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235804 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/496366 · Note