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CVE-2008-1694

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2008-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

vcdiff in Emacs 20.7 to 22.1.50, when used with SCCS, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• GNU Emacs: 20.7, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4
• GNU Sccs: all versions

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216880
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29905
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29926
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30109
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:096
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28857
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019909
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1309/references
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1310/references
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=208483
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41906
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/

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