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 remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - emacspeak: Insecure auxiliary /tmp file usage (symlink attack possible) (CVE-2008-4191)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - emacspeak: Insecure auxiliary /tmp file usage (symlink attack possible) (CVE-2008-4191)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

- 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
198426	RHEL 5 : emacspeak (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
198361	RHEL 4 : emacspeak (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	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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