CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6939

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2007-01-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-01-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu ed (<= 0.2)

References