CVE-2008-3931

Publication date 4 September 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Description

javareconf in R 2.7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
r-base-core-ra 16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
r-base 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

eslerm

cran appears to have fixed this in 2.14.0

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