CVE-2008-4191

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-08-24
Bugzilla:
460435: CVE-2008-4191 emacspeak: Insecure auxiliary /tmp file usage (symlink attack possible)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

extract-table.pl in Emacspeak 26 and 28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the extract-table.csv temporary file.

Find out more about CVE-2008-4191 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 emacspeak Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 emacspeak Will not fix

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