CVE-2014-1639

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 28, 2014
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jan 22, 2014

Description

syncevo/installcheck-local.sh in syncevolution before 1.3.99.7 uses mktemp 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	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20140122 Re: Getting tempfile/mktemp wrongmailing-list
syncevolution-cve20141639-symlink(90662)vdb-entry
102380vdb-entry
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736357
65098vdb-entry
[oss-security] 20140122 Getting tempfile/mktemp wrongmailing-list

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