cve-2014-2524
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-08-20 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 10:14
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.15% (0.32205)
Summary
The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0319.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2014-03/msg00057.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00037.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/579Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/587Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:154Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:132Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077023Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-July/135686.htmlThird Party Advisory
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