National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1694
Original release date:04/22/2008
Last revised:02/21/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (05/01/2008)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-1694
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208483
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-607-1
External Source: BID
Name: 28857
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:096
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1310
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1309
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30109
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29926
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29905
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216880
External Source: XF
Name: xemacs-gnuemacs-vcdiff-symlink(41906)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019909