extract-table.pl in Emacspeak 26 and 28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the extract-table.csv temporary file.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - extract-table.pl in Emacspeak 26 and 28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink     attack on the extract-table.csv temporary file. (CVE-2008-4191)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

- Fri Sep 26 2008 Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> -     28.0-3

    - (CVE-2008-4191) fix tmpfile vulnerability in       extract-table.pl with emacspeak-28.0-tmpfile.patch       from upstream svn (#463819)

  - Fri Sep 26 2008 Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> -     28.0-2

    - fix broken generated deps reported by mtasaka       (#463899)

    - script the replacement of tcl with tclsh to fix       missing dtk-soft

    - replace python2.4 with python in HTTPSpeaker.py

    - Thu Sep 25 2008 Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com>
      - 28.0-1

    - update to 28.0 with emacspeak-28.0-no-httpd.patch

    - replace emacspeak-tcl-pkgreq-tclx.patch with sed

    - emacspeak-no-linux-espeak.patch no longer needed

    - update emacspeak-15.0-fixpref.patch for patch fuzz

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

- Fri Sep 26 2008 Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> -     28.0-3

    - (CVE-2008-4191) fix tmpfile vulnerability in       extract-table.pl with emacspeak-28.0-tmpfile.patch       from upstream svn (#463820)

  - Fri Sep 26 2008 Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> -     28.0-2

    - fix broken generated deps reported by mtasaka       (#463899)

    - script the replacement of tcl with tclsh to fix       missing dtk-soft

    - replace python2.4 with python in HTTPSpeaker.py

    - Thu Sep 25 2008 Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com>
      - 28.0-1

    - update to 28.0 with emacspeak-28.0-no-httpd.patch

    - replace emacspeak-tcl-pkgreq-tclx.patch with sed

    - emacspeak-no-linux-espeak.patch no longer needed

    - update emacspeak-15.0-fixpref.patch for patch fuzz

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
217073	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2008-4191	Nessus	Misc.	critical
34314	Fedora 8 : emacspeak-28.0-3.fc8 (2008-8423)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
34313	Fedora 9 : emacspeak-28.0-3.fc9 (2008-8379)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2008-4191

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