Description (CNA)
(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the new filename.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/4
- http://www.osvdb.org/102379
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90669
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65098
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359
- http://www.osvdb.org/102381
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/3
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/4
- http://www.osvdb.org/102379
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90669
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65098
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359
- http://www.osvdb.org/102381
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/3