3.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-1875

Published: 06/10/2014 Updated: 29/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 320
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The Capture::Tiny module prior to 0.24 for Perl allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

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Debian Bug report logs - #737835 libcapture-tiny-perl: CVE-2014-1875: insecure use of /tmp Package: libcapture-tiny-perl; Maintainer for libcapture-tiny-perl is Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for libcapture-tiny-perl is src:libcapture-tiny-perl (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jaku ...
It was found [1] that the Capture::Tiny module, provided by the perl-Capture-Tiny package, used the File::temp::tmpnam module to generate temporary files: /lib/Capture/Tinypm: $stash->{flag_files}{$which} = scalar tmpnam(); This module makes use of the mktemp() function when called in the scalar context, which creates significantly more predi ...