CVE-2006-6939 (GCVE-0-2006-6939)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-01-17 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:42
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/23857 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2449 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/23848 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22129 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2450 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/24054 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4573 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://freshmeat.net/projects/ed/?branch_id=17855… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-962 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22129"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0005"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4573"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30374"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-962"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
"vendorComments": [
{
"comment": "Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:\nhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223072\n\nThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.\n",
"lastModified": "2007-01-18T00:00:00",
"organization": "Red Hat"
}
],
"vulnStatus": "Modified",
"weaknesses": [
{
"description": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "NVD-CWE-Other"
}
],
"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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