CVE-2007-5940

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: 2007-11-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

feynmf.pl in feynmf 1.08, as used in TeXLive 2007, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the feynmf$$.pl temporary file.

Affected products

Tug Texlive 2007: all versions

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198231
http://osvdb.org/42397
http://secunia.com/advisories/27737
http://secunia.com/advisories/27739
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-32.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26507
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3974
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198231
http://osvdb.org/42397
http://secunia.com/advisories/27737
http://secunia.com/advisories/27739
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-32.xml

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