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cve-2014-2524

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2014-08-20 14:00

Modified

2024-08-06 10:14

Severity ?

Summary

The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
	http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

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