CVE-2006-6939 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6939
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2006-6939

Description: GNU ed before 0.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, possibly in the open_sbuf function.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30374 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0005 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23857 Secunia Advisory: SA23848 Secunia Advisory: SA23832 Secunia Advisory: SA24054 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:023 FEDORA http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2450 http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2449 CONFIRM http://freshmeat.net/projects/ed/?branch_id=17855&release_id=240890 BID 22129

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