GSD-2014-1831

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2014-01-28 00:00
Details
Phusion Passenger before 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control_process.pid or a (2) generation-* file.
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CVE-2014-1831
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