Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4971

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-11-06 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:31:28
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

mafft-homologs in mafft 6.240 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (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#????? temporary files.