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CVE-2008-5299

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-12-01 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

chm2pdf 0.9 allows user-assisted local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .chm files in the (1) /tmp/chm2pdf/work or (2) /tmp/chm2pdf/orig temporary directories.

Affected products

• Karakas-Online Chm2Pdf: 0.9

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501959
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053501.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053510.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32257
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43109
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31735
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0236
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45813
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501959
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053501.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053510.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32257

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