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CVE-2014-3421 (GCVE-0-2014-3421)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-08 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:43
VLAI
Summary
lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2014-05-06 00:00
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