PT-2008-6427 · Chm2Pdf · Chm2Pdf

Karol Lewandowski · Published 2008-12-01 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-5299

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 chm2pdf version 0.9

Description The issue allows user-assisted local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .chm files in the /tmp/chm2pdf/work or /tmp/chm2pdf/orig temporary directories.

Recommendations For chm2pdf version 0.9, consider restricting access to the temporary directories /tmp/chm2pdf/work and /tmp/chm2pdf/orig to prevent symlink attacks until a patch is available.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5299

Affected Products

Chm2Pdf

References · 10

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053501.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5299 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053510.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5299 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32257 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501959 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0236 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43109 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31735 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45813 · Note