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ubuntu-cve-2014-1638

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2014-01-28 00:55

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

(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.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1638	REPORT
	http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/90669	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/4	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/3	REPORT
	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1638	REPORT

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  "published": "2014-01-28T00:55:00Z",
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CVE-2014-1638 (GCVE-0-2014-1638)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-28 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:50

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

7 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/4	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.osvdb.org/102379	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65098	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.osvdb.org/102381	vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/3	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2014-01-22 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2014-1638 (GCVE-0-2014-1638)

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