6.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-5260

Published: 16/08/2014 Updated: 08/09/2014
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.3 | Impact Score: 9.2 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 561
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The (1) mkxmltype and (2) mkdtskel scripts in XML-DT prior to 0.64 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/_xml_##### temporary file.

Vulnerability Trend

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xml-dt project xml-dt 0.60

xml-dt project xml-dt 0.62

xml-dt project xml-dt

xml-dt project xml-dt 0.61

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #756566 libxml-dt-perl: Insecure use of temporary files (CVE-2014-5260) Package: libxml-dt-perl; Maintainer for libxml-dt-perl is Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for libxml-dt-perl is src:libxml-dt-perl (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Steve Kemp <steve@s ...