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CVE-2003-0539

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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

Affected products

• Ddskk: 11.6_.rel.0
• RedHat Daredevil Skk: 11.3.2, 11.3.5, 11.6.0-6, 11.6.0-8, 11.6.0-10
• RedHat Ddskk-Xemacs: 11.6.0-6, 11.6.0-8, 11.6.0-10
• Skk: 10.62a

References

• 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
• 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

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