CVE-2012-2093 (GCVE-0-2012-2093)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-18 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
src/common/latex.py in Gajim 0.15 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary latex file, related to the get_tmpfile_name function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
12 references
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|---|---|
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| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53017 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/48794 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://trac.gajim.org/changeset/13759/src/common… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201208-04.xml | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/48695 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/0… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
Date Public
2012-04-10 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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