Weekly edition	Kernel	Security	Distributions	Contact Us	Search
Archives	Calendar	Subscribe	Write for LWN	LWN.net FAQ	Sponsors

R-base: arbitrary file overwrite

Package(s):

R-base

CVE #(s):

CVE-2008-3931

Created:

September 17, 2008

Updated:

September 23, 2008

Description:

From the Mandriva advisory:

A symlink vulnerability was found in the javareconf script in R that allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files (CVE-2008-3931).

Alerts:

Gentoo	200809-13	2008-09-22
Mandriva	MDVSA-2008:198	2008-09-16

(Log in to post comments)