CVE-2014-5260 (GCVE-0-2014-5260)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-08-16 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:41
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Summary
The (1) mkxmltype and (2) mkdtskel scripts in XML-DT before 0.64 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/_xml_##### temporary file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2014-07-30 00:00
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