fkie_cve-2008-1694
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-04-22 04:41
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
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.
References
Impacted products
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