What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-0055

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-01-11 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 4.10, 4.10-release, 4.10-release_p8, 4.10-releng, 4.11-release_p3, 4.11-releng (+22)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18404
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015469
• http://www.osvdb.org/22320
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16207
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24074
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18404
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015469
• http://www.osvdb.org/22320
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16207
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24074

Get alerted when CVE-2006-0055 or the next vulnerability affects your stack