CVE-2006-6939 Information

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.

Reference

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