CVE-2014-1638
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 28, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 22, 2014
Description
(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20140122 Re: Getting tempfile/mktemp wrongmailing-list
- 102379vdb-entry
- localepurge-cve20141638-symlink(90669)vdb-entry
- 65098vdb-entry
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359
- 102381vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20140122 Getting tempfile/mktemp wrongmailing-list
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