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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes Emacspeak Temporary File Vulnerability

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Emacspeak Temporary File Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2722
CVE ID : CVE-2008-4191
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-10-06

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A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in Emacspeak when handling a temporary directory via the "extract-table.pl" script, which could allow malicious users to conduct symlink attacks and overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the vulnerable application.

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2008-10-06 : Initial release

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