Security Advisory

CVE-2006-0055

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-01-11 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 16:18:20
Assigner freebsd
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.