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CVE-2008-4191

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 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: 2008-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

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.

Affected products

• Emacspeak Inc Emacspeak: 26.0, 28.0

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496431
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/emacspeak
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31880
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32071
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31241
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460435
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45237
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00010.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00012.html
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496431

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