CVE-2006-6939

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-6939
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-01-17 00:28:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-29 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionGNU ed before 0.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, possibly in the open_sbuf function.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Ed All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
rPath update for ed - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
2007-0005 TRUSTIX www.trustix.org
Advisories | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-962 CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Trustix update for bind and ed - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: ed-0.3-0.fc6 | FedoraNEWS.ORG FEDORA fedoranews.org
GNU Ed Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Fedora update for ed - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: ed-0.3-0.fc5 | FedoraNEWS.ORG FEDORA fedoranews.org
GNU ed – Freecode CONFIRM freshmeat.net
GNU ed Insecure Temporary File Creation - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-01-18Mark J CoxRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223072 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.
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