Published: 11/03/2014 Updated: 30/10/2018

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.4 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 392

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

The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons prior to 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/toto.fdf.

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opensuse opensuse 13.1
opensuse opensuse 12.3
logilab logilab-common

Debian Bug report logs - #737051 python-logilab-common: insecure use of /tmp (CVE-2014-1838 CVE-2014-1839) Package: python-logilab-common; Maintainer for python-logilab-common is Sandro Tosi <morph@debianorg>; Source for python-logilab-common is src:logilab-common (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debi ...

CWE-59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11986 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051 http://secunia.com/advisories/57209 http://www.logilab.org/ticket/207561 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00085.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737051 https://nvd.nist.gov

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