CVE-2008-6398: Eric Raymond Sng

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

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

Published 2009-03-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.