FKIE_CVE-2014-1638
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-01-28 00:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:05
Severity
Summary
(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile 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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | localepurge | * |
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"lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:05:19.323",
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