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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-6939 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/18/2007)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223072 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2449 CVE, MITRE
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2450 CVE, MITRE
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ed/?branch_id=17855&release_id=240890 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23832 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23848 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23857 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/24054 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:023 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22129 CVE, MITRE
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0005 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4573 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30374 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-962 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-6939
NVD Published Date:
01/16/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE