Package: maxima
Version: 5.43.2-3
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Maxima uses /tmp in an insecure way. In particular, when creating plots, files 
are written to maxima_tempdir (which defaults to /tmp) with predictable names, 
and there is no check that the files do not exist. An attacker could use 
symlinks to redirect the writes to an arbitrary file.

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