CVE-2012-2120

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 18, 2012
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Apr 4, 2012

Description

latex2man in texlive-extra-utils 2011.20120322, and possibly other versions or packages, when used with the H or T option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20120419 CVE request: latex2man / texlivemailing-list
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668779
[oss-security] 20120419 Re: CVE request: latex2man / texlivemailing-list

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