>> GNU Emacs vcdiff Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability
Title : GNU Emacs vcdiff Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1309 CVE ID : CVE-2008-1694
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-04-21
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in GNU Emacs, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by a race condition in the "lib-src/vcdiff" script that uses temporary files in an insecure manner, which could allow malicious users to conduct symlink attacks and delete arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the vulnerable script.
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