CVE-2003-0539: Ddskk

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

skk (Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program) 12.1 and earlier, and the ddskk package which is based on skk, creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files.

Affected products

• Ddskk Ddskk: version 11.6_.rel.0 only
• Red Hat Daredevil Skk: version 11.3.2 only; version 11.3.5 only; version 11.6.0-6 only; version 11.6.0-8 only; version 11.6.0-10 only
• Red Hat Ddskk-Xemacs: version 11.6.0-6 only; version 11.6.0-8 only; version 11.6.0-10 only
• Skk Skk: version 10.62a only

Published 2003-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.