CVE-2007-6209
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-12-04 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:54
Severity ?
Summary
Util/difflog.pl in zsh 4.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
Impacted products
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