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CVE-2008-4983

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: yes
• Published: 2008-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

scilab-bin 4.1.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/SciLink#####1, (b) /tmp/SciLink#####2, (c) /tmp/SciLink#####3, (d) /tmp/*.#####, (e) /tmp/*.#####.res, (f) /tmp/*.#####.err, and (g) /tmp/*.#####.diff temporary files, related to the (1) scilink, (2) scidoc, and (3) scidem scripts.

Affected products

• Scilab-Bin: 4.1.2

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/496414
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/scilab-bin
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33630
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-14.xml
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30968
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44883
• http://bugs.debian.org/496414
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/scilab-bin
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33630

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