CVE-2008-1694 (GCVE-0-2008-1694)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-04-21 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:32
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/29905 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208483 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019909 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/29926 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/30109 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28857 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216880 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1310… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2008-04-08 00:00
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    "redhat_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "Low",
      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T13:16:30+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2008-1694",
      "id": "CVE-2008-1694",
      "initial_release_date": "2008-04-11T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_affected": "2",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "emacs insecure /tmp file usage",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2008/cve-2008-1694.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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