CVE-2006-0055: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Freebsd: version 4.10 only; version 4.11 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.2.1 only; …

Published 2006-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.