tags 476611 fixed-upstream
quit

Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Steve Grubb of Red Hat discovered that vcdiff script as shipped with Emacs
> (confirmed in versions 20.7 to 22.1.50) uses temporary files insecurely,
> which makes it possible for local attacker to conduct a symlink attack and
> make the victim overwrite arbitrary file.

Thanks for the report; patch merged upstream in the Emacs 22 release
branch and the trunk.



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