CVE-2014-3421

First published: Thu May 08 2014(Updated: )

lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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