CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-0556

Published: Aug 22, 2001 | Modified: Sep 10, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Nirvana Editor (NEdit) 5.1.1 and earlier allows a local attacker to overwrite other users files via a symlink attack on (1) backup files or (2) temporary files used when nedit prints a file or portions of a file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Nedit Nedit * 5.1.1 (including)

References