3.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-1638

Published: 28/01/2014 Updated: 29/08/2017
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

Vulnerability Summary

(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge prior to 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.

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Debian Bug report logs - #736359 localepurge: CVE-2014-1638: tmp file vulnerability Package: localepurge; Maintainer for localepurge is Debian QA Group <packages@qadebianorg>; Source for localepurge is src:localepurge (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivide> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:15: ...