PT-2014-4268 · Debian · Localepurge

Helmut Grohne · Published 2014-01-28 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2014-1638

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.3

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions localepurge versions prior to 0.7.3.2

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. This is due to the use of tempfile to create a safe temporary file, but appending a suffix to the original filename and writing to this new filename.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.7.3.2, update to version 0.7.3.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-1638

Affected Products

Localepurge

References · 15

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-1638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1638 · Security Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736359 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1638 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1638 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/102379 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90669 · Note
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/90669 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/65098 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/102381 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/3 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/22/4 · Note