CVE-2008-1694 (GCVE-0-2008-1694)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-04-21 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 08:32
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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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