fkie_cve-2006-6939
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2007-01-17 00:28
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
GNU ed before 0.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files, possibly in the open_sbuf function.
References
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