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CVE-2008-6398

• 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: 2009-03-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

sng_regress in SNG 1.0.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/recompiled$$.png, (2) /tmp/decompiled$$.sng, and (3) /tmp/canonicalized$$.sng temporary files.

Affected products

• Eric Raymond Sng: 1.0.2

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496407
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00283.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30965
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44881
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496407
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00283.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30965
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44881

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