FKIE_CVE-2014-2524

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-08-20 14:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:06
Severity
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mageia mageia 3.0
mageia mageia 4.0
gnu readline *
gnu readline 2.1
gnu readline 2.2
gnu readline 4.0
gnu readline 4.1
gnu readline 4.2
gnu readline 4.2
gnu readline 4.3
gnu readline 5.0
gnu readline 5.1
gnu readline 5.2
gnu readline 6.0
gnu readline 6.1
gnu readline 6.2
opensuse opensuse 12.3
opensuse opensuse 13.1
fedoraproject fedora 20
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