CVE-2007-5377 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5377
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Description: The (1) tramp-make-temp-file and (2) tramp-make-tramp-temp-file functions in Tramp 2.1.10 extension for Emacs, and possibly earlier 2.1.x versions, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27244 Secunia Advisory: SA27343 OSVDB 41752 MLIST http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00132.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00158.html MISC http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194713 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-22.xml CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194713 BID 26072

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