Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-1694 First vendor Publication 2008-04-22
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1694

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17480
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17480
Title: USN-607-1 -- emacs21, emacs22 vulnerabilities
Description: It was discovered that Emacs did not account for precision when formatting integers.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-607-1
CVE-2007-6109
CVE-2008-1694
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.04
 Product(s): emacs21
emacs22
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for emacs MDVSA-2008:096 (emacs)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_096.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for emacs21, emacs22 vulnerabilities USN-607-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_607_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
44566 GNU Emacs vcdiff Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-096.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-09 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-607-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216880
http://secunia.com/advisories/29905
http://secunia.com/advisories/29926
http://secunia.com/advisories/30109
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:096
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28857
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019909
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1309/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1310/references
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208483
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41906
https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/
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