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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 5, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2008-4939

CVE-2008-4939

Description

apertium 3.0.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/#####.lex.cc, (b) /tmp/#####.deformat.l, (c) /tmp/#####.reformat.l, (d) /tmp/#####docxorig, (e) /tmp/#####docxsalida.zip, (f) /tmp/#####xlsxembed, (g) /tmp/#####xlsxorig, and (h) /tmp/#####xslxsalida.zip temporary files, related to the (1) apertium-gen-deformat, (2) apertium-gen-reformat, and (3) apertium scripts.

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Affected products

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  • Apertium/Apertium2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:apertium:apertium:3.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:apertium:apertium:3.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: =3.0.7

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