cve-2006-0055
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-01-11 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 16:18
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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