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vcdiff in Emacs 20.7 to 22.1.50, when used with SCCS,...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 22, 2008
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

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(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2008-1694

GHSA ID

GHSA-7cqh-9wjj-hhf9

Source code

No known source code

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