CVE-2013-1444

Published: 30/09/2013 Updated: 11/10/2013

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.3 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 294

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

A certain Debian patch for txt2man 1.5.5, as used in txt2man 1.5.5-2, 1.5.5-4, and others, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/2222.

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txt2man could be made to overwrite files ...

Debian Bug report logs - #724614 txt2man: CVE-2013-1444: unsafe use of temporary files Package: txt2man; Maintainer for txt2man is Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debianorg>; Source for txt2man is src:txt2man (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debianorg> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:54:01 UT ...

CWE-59 http://osvdb.org/97769 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/660 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724614 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1979-1 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1979-1/

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