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CVSSv2

CVE-2008-1694

Published: 22/04/2008 Updated: 03/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 409
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: CVE-2008-1694: vcdiff insecure temporary file
Debian Bug report logs - #476611 CVE-2008-1694: vcdiff insecure temporary file Package: emacs22; Maintainer for emacs22 is Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalueorg>; Source for emacs22 is src:emacs (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:06:13 UTC Severity: importan ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: emacs21, emacs22 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Emacs did not account for precision when formatting integers If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly other unspecified actions This issue does not affect Ubuntu 804 (CVE-2007-6109) ...

References

CWE-59http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216880https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208483http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28857http://secunia.com/advisories/29905http://secunia.com/advisories/29926http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019909http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:096http://secunia.com/advisories/30109http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1310/referenceshttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1309/referenceshttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41906https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476611https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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