PT-2014-7838 · Debian+1 · Apt+1

Guillem Jover · Published 2014-10-08 · Updated 2020-01-08 · CVE-2014-7206

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.6

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apt versions prior to 1.0.9.2

Description The issue allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the changelog file. This is related to the changelog command.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.9.2, update to version 1.0.9.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-7206

DSA-3048-1

USN-2370-1

Affected Products

Apt

Ubuntu

References · 18

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7206 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7206 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2370-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7206 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7206 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3048 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-7206 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2370-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-7206 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7206 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7206 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2370-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/70310 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61333 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96951 · Note