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
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/29926 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216880 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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Date Public
2008-04-08 00:00
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}



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