CVE-2007-5377 Information

Description

The (1) tramp-make-temp-file and (2) tramp-make-tramp-temp-file functions in Tramp 2.1.10 extension for Emacs and possibly earlier 2.1.x versions allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194713 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00132.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00158.html http://osvdb.org/41752 http://secunia.com/advisories/27244 http://secunia.com/advisories/27343 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-22.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26072