CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-0055

2.1 LOW Published 2006-01-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-01-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

The ispell_op function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 4.10 • freebsd freebsd 4.11 • freebsd freebsd 5.0 • freebsd freebsd 5.1 • freebsd freebsd 5.2 • freebsd freebsd 5.2.1 • freebsd freebsd 5.3 • freebsd freebsd 5.4 • freebsd freebsd 6.0

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