CVE-2008-1694 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1694
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41906 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-607-1 ST 1019909 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29905 Secunia Advisory: SA29926 Secunia Advisory: SA30109 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:096 CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216880 BID 28857

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