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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0055
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CVE-2006-0055

Description:
The ispell_op function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24074

ST
  1015469

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA18404

OSVDB
  22320

FREEBSD

BID
  16207


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