CVE-2011-4675

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 5, 2011
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Dec 4, 2011

Description

The pathname canonicalization functionality in io/filesystem/filesystem.cc in Widelands before 15.1 expands leading ~ (tilde) characters to home-directory pathnames but does not restrict use of these characters in strings received from the network, which might allow remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and overwrite arbitrary files via a ~ in a pathname that is used for a file transfer in an Internet game, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1932.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/build-15/revision/5021
widelands-filesystem-file-overwrite(71626)vdb-entry
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617960

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