FKIE_CVE-2014-1838

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-03-11 19:37 - Updated: 2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/57209
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.logilab.org/ticket/207561
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/57209
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.logilab.org/ticket/207561
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
opensuse opensuse 12.3
opensuse opensuse 13.1
logilab logilab-common *
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