CVE-2009-1962

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2009-04-01
Bugzilla:
505257: CVE-2009-1962 xfig: insecure use of temporary files

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Xfig, possibly 3.2.5, allows local users to read and write arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) xfig-eps[PID], (2) xfig-pic[PID].pix, (3) xfig-pic[PID].err, (4) xfig-pcx[PID].pix, (5) xfig-xfigrc[PID], (6) xfig[PID], (7) xfig-print[PID], (8) xfig-export[PID].err, (9) xfig-batch[PID], (10) xfig-exp[PID], or (11) xfig-spell.[PID] temporary files, where [PID] is a process ID.

Find out more about CVE-2009-1962 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 xfig Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xfig Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 xfig Will not fix

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