CVE-2008-4973: Debian Myspell

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

i2myspell in myspell 3.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/i2my#####.1 and (2) /tmp/i2my#####.2 temporary files.

Affected products

• Debian Myspell: version 3.1 only

Published 2008-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.