CVE-2008-1694

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Emacs
Sccs
Vendor
CVE Published:
22 April 2008

Summary

vcdiff in Emacs 20.7 to 22.1.50, when used with SCCS, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/29905
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208483
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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