CVE-2011-3154 (GCVE-0-2011-3154)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-17 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:22
VLAI
Summary
DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py in Update Manager before 1:0.87.31.1, 1:0.134.x before 1:0.134.11.1, 1:0.142.x before 1:0.142.23.1, 1:0.150.x before 1:0.150.5.1, and 1:0.152.x before 1:0.152.25.5 does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to obtain the XAUTHORITY file content for a user via a symlink attack on the temporary file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1284-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/47024 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2011-11-28 00:00
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