CVE-2008-1694

EPSS 0.05%

Published: 4/22/2008Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1694

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.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/xemacs21from 0, < 21.4.21-4

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1694