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GNU Emacs vcdiff Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Title : GNU Emacs vcdiff Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1309
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1694
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-21

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in GNU Emacs, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1309
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208483
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216880

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Steve Grubb (Red Hat).

ChangeLog

2008-04-21 : Initial release

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