CPANSA-Term-ReadLine-Gnu-2014-2524: Term-ReadLine-Gnu vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2014-08-20T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2014-08-20T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

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.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-2524

Vulnerability Description

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.

Weakness CWE-59 : Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Term-ReadLine-Gnu less than 1.27
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P 3.3 Low
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 2014 First release

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