Published: 18/08/2003 Updated: 11/10/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 409

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

skk (Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program) 12.1 and previous versions, and the ddskk package which is based on skk, creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.

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skk (Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program), does not take appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files This bug could potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Emacs and skk ddskk is derived from the same code, and contains the same bug For the stable distribution (woody) t ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-343 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-242.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A28 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-343

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