CVE-2014-2524
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-08-20 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 10:14
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
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.
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