Link Following Affecting localepurge package, versions <0.7.3.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LOCALEPURGE-379504
  • published28 Jan 2014
  • disclosed28 Jan 2014

Introduced: 28 Jan 2014

CVE-2014-1638  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 localepurge to version 0.7.3.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream localepurge package and not the localepurge package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

(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.

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